‘Petrushka’

Kristiina Poska – dirigent 

Lukas Geniušas – piano

Ward De Jonghe °1990 ~ Creatie 

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Sergej Rachmaninov 1873–1943
Concerto voor piano nr. 2 in c,  Op. 18

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Petroesjka 1947
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A true dream for every conductor: Stravinsky’s Petrushka combines so many bright colours and bouncing sounds, the baton almost dances on its own. Rachmaninoff wrote his famous second piano concerto after a period of major depression. Fortunately, the hypnotherapist Nikolaj Dahl helped him climb out of that dark pit. The Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniušas feels perfectly Rachmaninoff’s virtuoso melancholy.