Eduardo Portal conducts Scheherazade
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This event took place on Saturday 23 May 2015.
- Saturday 23 May 2015
- Reading The Hexagon
Eduardo Portal conducts Scheherazade
Sat 23 May 2015
Reading The Hexagon
Need to know
Repertoire
- Smetana The Bartered Bride Overture
- Dvořák Cello Concerto
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Features
- Eduardo Portal Conductor
- Natalie Clein Cello
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A display of quintessentially Czech music from two Bohemian legends, with Smetana’s exhilarating Overture to his first and most enduring comic opera The Bartered Bride and Dvořák’s magnificent Cello Concerto, performed by world-class cellist Natalie Clein. Although composed in America, it expresses the melodic inflections derived from Czech folk music with a continuous flow of invention and lyricism.
Young Spanish Maestro Eduardo Portal will lead the orchestra in the tale of One Thousand and One Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s colourful epic, Scheherazade. The mysteriously haunting sound of the violin voice of Scheherazade, as she calms the Sultan’s menacing brass fan fares, along with the strumming of the harp, calls to mind a mystical faraway land.