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KC Symphony Presents ‘Rapsodie’ & ‘Poem of Ecstasy’
March 3, 2023 - March 5, 2023
$33.50 – $105.50Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher brings his unique insight to György Ligeti’s San Francisco Polyphony. Composed while Ligeti was living near San Francisco, the work’s melodic patterns rise out of the fog but fall back into a miasma of sound.
Two marvelous works by Maurice Ravel form the heart of this program. Pianist extraordinaire George Li returns to Kansas City for another star turn in Ravel’s delightful Piano Concerto in G Major. Drawing on his mother’s Basque heritage, Ravel captured the flavor of Spain with bejeweled timbres in his Rapsodie espagnole. You’ll be enthralled by its sensuously lithe lines and rhythmic vitality.
Concluding this program of magnificent tone colors is a work by Russian composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin. In his obsessive quest for transcendence, Scriabin wrote music using a complex harmonic language. His metaphysical musings reached an apotheosis in The Poem of Ecstasy. Its voluptuous sound will envelop you in a wonderfully mystical experience, and the truly ecstatic ending will raise the roof!
