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Tan Dun’s Water Concerto

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Sat, Mar 29, 2025, 19:30
Colin Currie takes on Tan Dun’s extraordinary, culture-crossing Water Concerto.Life finds a way, and even under Soviet repression, composers were testing boundaries and telling forbidden truths. Arvo Pärt drew on the music of the past to liberate explosive new creative forces. Lutosławski reached for all the colours of a full symphony orchestra, and launched glittering sonic fireworks into grey Cold War skies. Eva Ollikainen rediscovers two modern classics, and Colin Currie – in the words of one critic, ‘surely the... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Eva OllikainenConductor
Colin CurriePercussion

Program

Arvo PärtSymphony No. 1 (Polyphonic)
Tan DunWater Concerto
LutosławskiSymphony No. 3
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