Dinuk Wijeratne leads us through a sensational orchestral program to conclude our festival. We begin with a short work by Dinuk himself, taking its inspiration from Schubert as well as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and creating a modern "pop song". Then we'll hear Gwen Hoebig's magnificent rendition of Vaughan Williams' swoon-worthy The Lark Ascending, and Philip Chiu in Prokofiev's first piano concerto, a short, sharp and very bracing statement from an ambitious twenty year-old! The grand finale: Rimsky-Korsakoff's magical Scheherazade, an enormously popular orchestral evocation of the world of the Thousand and One Nights.
Scotia Festival Orchestra
Dinuk Wijeratne, conductor
Dinuk Wijeratne - A Letter from the
After-Life
Ralph Vaughan
Williams - The Lark Ascending
Gwen Hoebig, violin
Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 1
in D-flat Major, Op. 10
Philip Chiu, piano
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff - Scheherazade, Op. 35