Concert per a piano de Chopin, amb Cristian Macelaru i David Khrikuli

OBC programme featuring Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by pianist David Khrikuli, alongside Smetana's Vltava and Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru.

The programme opens with Bedrich Smetana's Vltava (Die Moldau), a symphonic poem from the cycle Má vlast, which traces the river's course from its source to its arrival in Prague and pauses on passages of a nocturnal character and peasant dances. Next, David Khrikuli takes on Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, lyrical in its writing, in which the most personal voice of the Polish composer can be heard. Although this numbering is the most widespread, it is in fact his second venture into the genre.

In the second half, Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3 is performed, post-Romantic in style and composed during his exile in the United States. Its language is marked by nostalgia: the weight of the past coexists with the construction of a luminous present.

The OBC performs the programme under the direction of Cristian Măcelaru, in a concert held at Sala 1 Pau Casals in Barcelona, a venue that hosts concerts and shows in the city.