Romance and Passion
11.30am, Sunday 24 June 2012
QPAC Concert Hall
Conductor Eivind Aadland
Presenter Guy Noble
Tenor Kang Wang
Soprano Milica Ilic
Violin Warwick Adeney
Repertoire includes excerpts from
Verdi La Forza del Destino: Overture
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - the Montagues and the Capulets
Gounod Romeo et Juliette, Act II: L’Amour! L’amour..Ah, leve toi Soleil
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No.7, Op.72
Dvorak Rusalka, O Silver Moon
Beethoven Romance No. 2 in F, Op.50
Franck Psyche (Symphonic Poem) – Part II: Les jardin d’Eros
Massenet Manon, Act III: Toi! Vous!..Oui c’est moi…
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet – Suite No.II: Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb
Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin- Dance Suite: Finale
What is this thing called love? Whatever it is, it certainly makes the world, and music, go round. Love and romance have been the most powerful source of inspiration to composers of all ages: the euphoric love of Romeo and Juliet, the doomed love of Prokofiev Death of Tybalt... even Beethoven (forever unlucky in love) who entrusted his love song to a solo violin. Eivind Aadland, Kang Wang and Milica Ilic, QSO, spiced with a few typically wry comments from the permanently lovestruck Guy Noble, explore some of music's pinnacles of passion.
