Youth Orchestra Romania-Moldova

Young Euro Classic 2016 Ticket Categories *plus service fee 16€ / 22€ / 25€ Youth Orchestra Rumania-Moldova International Cristian Mandeal Conductor Andrei Ionita Cello PROGRAMME 7 pm: Pre-concert Lecture with Katja Tschirwitz in the Werner-Otto-Saal Free for ticket holders (admission at 6:45 pm) GEORGE ENESCU Suite No. 1 in C-Major Op. 9 (1903) PJOTR I. TSCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33 (1877) SERGEI PROKOFIEV “Romeo and Juliet” Suite Op. 64 (1936): 1. The Montagues and Capulets 2. Juliet, the Little Girl 3. Masks 4. Romeo‘s Farewell from Juliet 5. Tybalt’s Death 6. Romeo at Juliet’s Grave The concert of the Youth Orchestra Romania-Moldova, which thereby makes its Young Euro Classic debut, draws from the fullness of Eastern Europe’s rich musical repertoire. Of course, the greatest Romanian composer, George Enescu, takes pride of place, opening the concert with his imaginative Suite for Orchestra No. 1 in C-Major of 1903. Its combination of Romanian folk melodies, French elegance and German expressivity is far too rarely heard in concert halls in this country. A firework of instrumental effects is unleashed in Sergey Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, depicting the tragic story of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; the young musicians from Romania and Moldova perform a selection of its most famous “numbers”. And then there is one more set of fireworks: the fiendishly difficult Rococo Variations by Piotr Tchaikovsky, in which the young Romanian cellist Andrei Ionita will prove his brilliant talent. http://www.young-euro-classic.de/en/