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“Songs of the Land” CD 7 – Loving Affair

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• 國立臺灣文學館

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• The lovely melody of Donizetti’s Overture from Opera buffa “Don Pasquale” opens this concert which also presents four other opera excerpts. This is a concert in which the many facets of human emotions are blatantly on display. In his last work, “Falstaff”, Verdi presented the notorious huge man Falstaff in a humorous light. In act four of “Carmen”, we see the gypsy heroine willing to die for love, and how the officer Don Jose fell from grace in the name of love. The murder outside of the bull fighting ring is highlighted by the tension in the music. The excerpt from Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” is simple yet moving. Angelica is forced to become a nun after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. She kills herself in grief seven years later when she learns that her son has fallen ill and passed away. Strauss’ “Salome” aims to shock and surprise the audience from the dance of the seven veils to the very end of the opera. We invite you to come and enjoy a night of drama and music.

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Symphony of Voice and Sentiment VII - "Radek Baborák meets NTSO"

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• At just 18 years old, Baborak became the principal horn player of the Czech Philharmonic, and later was the principal horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic for eight years. Master conductor Seiji Ozawa is known to have praised him to be a “French horn prodigy”. This time, Baborak joins NTSO in two classic horn concertos. Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.2 in E-flat Major was composed for natural horns (with no keys or valves), and challenges the soloist to convey the simple aesthetics and complex music patterns in a delicate manner. The Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, completed by Soviet composer Glière in 1951, fuses romantic melodies with classical form and fully displays the acoustic characteristics of modern horns. With his distinctive style and impeccable skills, Baborak’s interpretation of these two master pieces, which were written a century apart, is something that cannot be missed. Conductor Lan Shui also presents two of the most extravagant and fantastic pieces of work in the beginning of the 20th century - Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht for String Orchestra (re-arranged for from string sextet) and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Come and experience the joy of ablution and rebirth.

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