Rachmaninoff's classical music premiered for the first time in Vietnam

At 20:30 p.m. on March 3, at Hoan Kiem Lake Theater, Hanoi, a music night honoring composer Sergei Rachmaninoff will take place.

At the special concert night "Rachmaninoff: King of Melody", 80 international artists of the Sun Symphony Orchestra (SSO) under the direction of Conductor Olivier Ochanine will perform the most anticipated work, for the first time. First performance in Vietnam Symphony no. 1 in D minor.

This symphony is one of the masterpieces of classical music, but has quite an ups and downs in fate. After its first performance in 1897, the work was not published or performed again during Rachmaninoff's lifetime.

Luckily, the manuscript of the work was reconstructed from the parts found in 1945. Recently, Symphony No. 1 in D minor has been returned to its rightful place of honor when appearing in many works. large concert stage, in warm reception from the public.

The concert also brought "Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini" op.43 for piano and orchestra. This is one of Rachmaninoff's last works, as he later focused mostly on performance.

Rachmaninoff spent most of the summer of 1934 writing “Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini”, inspired by Paganini's classic “Caprice A minor”. This is also one of Rachmaninoff's most successful compositions.

This classic work will be performed solo by young international pianist Nguyen Viet Trung.

Born in 1996, in Hanoi, Nguyen Viet Trung soon showed his musical talent. At the age of 7, his family allowed him to study piano under Professor Filomena Dziedzic at the Im Oskara Kolberga School of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Just two years later, at the age of 9, Trung won the First Prize of the Emmy Alberg contest in the city of Lodz, Poland. After that, Nguyen Viet Trung consecutively won many awards at major piano talent competitions held in Poland.

Even though he is very young, Nguyen Viet Trung's experience performing on major concert stages in the world is enough to make the music-loving public admire him. He has performed with famous orchestras under the direction of famous conductors such as Wojciech Czepiel, Le Phi Phi, Honna Tetsuji, Łukasz Borowicz, Marek Pijarowski, Wojciech Rodek, Jacek Rogala...

Under the direction of conductor Olivier Ochanine, 80 international artists of the SSO Symphony Orchestra and pianist Nguyen Viet Trung promise to bring classical music lovers the most anticipated musical party, with The works have strong appeal, high difficulty, and challenge the talents of true artists.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) was one of the most prominent composers, piano virtuosos, and the last symbol of the Russian romantic school in classical music that lasted until the twentieth century. Rachmaninoff appeared at a historical crossroads, between the old and the new, between tradition and innovation, so from him, the public can see a panoramic cultural picture of the era, in which the romantic sense , national spirit and nostalgia for the past are reflected through music.

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