Serenades for Strings from Antonín Dvo?ák and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, scheduled Wednesday at 5pm and 7.30pm at the Katara Opera House, will be conducted by concertmaster Joo-young Oh.
The QPO noted that Oh is “one of the most established multi-grounded violinists of our time”.
He earned his first international recognition at the age of 14 when he became the winner of the 1996 Young Concert Artists International Auditions held in New York.
Dvorák’s *Serenade for Strings in E Major is one of his most popular orchestral works, and was composed in just two weeks in May of 1875 while Tchaikovsky's *Serenade for Strings in C Major, conducted by Andreas Weiser, was inspired by Mozart, and completed in 1880.
*Dvorak and the New World is scheduled for February 17 at 5pm and 7.30pm at the Katara Opera House.
Andreas Weiser is the conductor.
This concert, according to the QPO, includes Prokofiev’s *Symphony No. 1 in D Major, which was composed as a modern reinterpretation of the classical styles of Haydn and Mozart, and remains one of Prokofiev’s most popular works.
The performance will also feature Dvorák’s *Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World, though it’s more widely known as *New World Symphony.
The *New World Symphony was written while the composer was living and working in New York City, and was purportedly inspired by Dvorák’s reflections on his American setting.
Widely regarded as the most distinguished of Czech composers, the QPO noted that Dvo?ák produced attractive, vigorous, well-demarcated music.
His melodies are spontaneous-sounding yet memorable and his music colourful, abundant and varied.
Meanwhile, Tchaikovsky was a major Russian composer of the late 19th century.
A key figure of Russian Romanticism and the first Russian composer of international span, he was one of the great symphonists of his generation.
Particularly gifted for melodies and a master of lyricism and sentimentality, Tchaikovsky composed some of the most popular themes in all of classical music, according to the QPO.