Grand Opening Festival for Maribor 2012

Performers:
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti – Artistic Director and Lead Violin

Soloists:
Dawn Upshaw – soprano
Richard Tognetti – violin
Satu Vänskä – violin
Helena Rathbone – violin

Program:
Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G Major, RV 739 "La Verita' in Cimento" – Andante  (1720)
Niccolò Paganini / arr. R. Tognetti: Caprice on Caprices - Caprices No. 20 in D Major, and No. 17 in E flat Major (1820)

Selections from the Luminous project:

    Alfred Schnittke / arr. for strings Y. Bashmet: Trio Sonata for String Orchestra (2. Adagio) (1987)
    Benjamin Britten / arr. for strings R. Tognetti: A Boy was Born – Corpus Christi Carol (1933)
    Astor Piazzola / arr. U. Lemper: Oblivion (1982)
    Buck, Mills & Stipe (R.E.M) I´ve Been High (1998)
    Gabriel Yared: The Talented Mr Ripley - Lullaby for Cain (1999)
    Alfred Schnittke / arr. for strings Y. Bashmet: Trio Sonata for String Orchestra (1. Moderato) (1987)

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Franz Schubert / arr. R. Tognetti: String Quartet No.14 in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden” (1824)
Arnold Schoenberg / arr. for string orchestra: Litany for String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp Minor, op.10 (1908)
Robert Schumann / arr. R. Tognetti: Mondnacht in C sharp Minor, No. 5, Op. 39 (1840)
Arnold Schoenberg / arr. for string orchestra: Transfigured Night, Op.4 (1917)

 
Four-time Grammy Award winner and MacArthur “genius” grantee Dawn Upshaw, a soprano whose vocal purity and creative courage have won the hearts of millions around the globe, joins the “vitality, elegance, playfulness and technical prowess of an ensemble of soloists” (San Francisco Chronicle). She is accompanied by the wonderful Australian Chamber Orchestra under the artistic leadership of Richard Tognetti - for a summons to the festival Opening Night in all its magic.