Last year, Hannes Minnaar made quite an impression on me with the above performance of Grieg’s Piano concerto. So a concert by JeugdOrkest Nederland, featuring this work, along with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite? Good times.
- Seen Live
- JeugdOrkest Nederland, conducted by Jurjen Hempel, with Hannes Minnaar (piano) at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on August 1st, 2013
- Works performed
- Modest Mussorgsky — A Night on the Bare Mountain
- Edvard Grieg — Pianoconcert in a minor, op. 16 (rev. 1907) i. Allegro molto moderato / ii. Adagio / iii. Allegro moderato molto e marcato
- (encore Hannes Minnaar, unidentified work by Chopin)
- Igor Stravinsky — The Firebird (suite 1945) i. Introduction / ii. Prélude et danse de l’oiseau de feu / iii. Variations / iv. Pantomime I / v. Pas de deux / vi. Pantomime II / vii. Scherzo / viii. Pantomime III / ix. Rondo / x. Danse infernale / xi. Berceuse / xii. Hymn finale
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scherazade: iii. The Young Prince and The Young Princess (Andantino quasi allegretto — Pochissimo più mosso — Come prima — Pochissimo più animato)
- (encore, unidentified work)