Prokofiev / Scriabin

St. Petersburg conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky is one of the most renowned specialists in Russian music this is the repertoire he chose for his debut with the Basque National Orchestra. Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony Concerto premiered in 1952, originally as a cello concerto with Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist, but was later revised to bring out its symphonic nature. The solo part, however, remained spectacularly difficult, and to tackle it we have with us the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, described in the New York Times as "a fearless performer with technique to spare". In the second part, Kochanovsky will take on another score closely related to St. Petersburg: Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No.2, a work composed while still in his youth, but which foreshadows the unmistakable harmonic colour and mystical roots of subsequent works such as the Poem of Fire or the Poem of Ecstasy.