Masterworks 5 - La Mer (The Sea)
Natasha Paremski, piano
Celebrate the mastery of musical performance, with this tour de force of a concert: First, we revel in the breathtaking virtuosity of piano soloist Natasha Paremski in Chopin's famous Piano Concerto No.1. Then we feature the DSSO’s musicians in two works that pull out all the stops of brilliant orchestral writing and orchestration. Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No.4, subtitled Heichalos (Hebrew for “rooms”), explores mystical encounters with higher worlds: From the darkness of the first room to the “love song between humanity and God” (Leshnoff) of the second part. The DSSO’s performance will mark the Minnesota premiere of this work. Claude Debussy’s most vivid depiction of the sea and the play of its waves bursts with orchestral color and originality. La Mer is truly one of the most important works of a style that became known as musical Impressionism around the world.
Chopin Piano Concerto No.1
Leshnoff Symphony No.4
Debussy La Mer