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CSO Program Notes 2019/20

Focus

New & hot: Classical

Riccardo Muti opens his 10th season as music director with two dramatic Russian works—Alexander Scriabin's haunting first orchestral composition and Shostakovich's pensive Sixth Symphony, written during a time of prewar tension. The brilliant Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the most gifted musicians of his generation," performs Edvard Grieg's treasured Piano Concerto.

CSO Program Notes: Muti Andsnes & Grieg Piano Concerto

Mariage d'Amour - The Western vs. The Eastern Style (4 Variations) \\ by Bndr Als

DESCRIPTION 

The lyrics of this song come from the poetry of the 14th century mystical poet Nasimi, who was one of the first literary figures to compose in Azerbaijani. The composer sets an ecstatic mood in this new piece in Shur mugham that evokes Sufi ceremonies through high-energy percussion and dazzling avaz sections. The musical narrative is majestic, power, and intensely beautiful.

Performed live at the Opening Ceremony of the 43rd World Heritage Committee held at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.


CREDITS 

Musical Director & Composer: Sami Yusuf
Creative Producer & Director: Andrei Boltenko

Poem by ‘Alī ‘Imādu d-Dīn Nasīmī’ (“Nasimi”)
English translation: Dr. Mohammad H. Faghfoory

Mixed & Mastered by Vishnu Rajan @ Andante Studios
Video editing and post-production by Omar Al-Balushi @ Andante Studios

Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan


SOLOISTS:

Tayyar Bayramov & Samira Aliyeva (vocals)


LYRICS & TRANSLATION 

Məndə sığar iki cahan, mən bu cahana sığmazam,
The two worlds are contained in Me
But I will not be contained in these worlds
I cannot be contained in being or in the engendered world
 
Gövhəri-laməkan mənəm, kövnü məkana sığmazam 
I am the Treasure* of no abode,
But I will not be contained in these worlds

Sami Yusuf - Nasimi

Throughout love _ Mina Atwaan

The Arrival

ᴏᴍɪᴅ  -chak chak baran  -  (Instrumental)

Verdi - La Traviata: Addio del Passato | Farewell to the Past
Pretty Woman (1990) Comedy, Romance, Drama - Heard in the Opera Scene

Pretty Woman | La Traviata Addio del Passato

Ezel

Lag ja gale is an evergreen hit song by Lata Mangeshkar ji, I'm just covering it in my style, If u love this hit the Heart and drop your comments. 

Regards:
MIK

Lag Ja Gale Cover

This song in Raag Khamaj was originally composed and sung by Shafqat Amanat Ali.

All rights reserved by Rohail Hayatt and Shafqat Amanat Ali

Coke Studio Sessions: Season 2

Khamaj (Mora Saiyaan) - Coke Studio, Season 2

Following a "blistering" (Chicago Tribune) CSO podium debut, David Afkham returns to lead a diverse program featuring Haydn's emotionally charged Mourning Symphony, Strauss' tone poem portraying a man's journey through death and Brahms' radiant Third Symphony, which Clara Schumann described as "one beat of the heart, every movement a jewel!"

CSO Program Notes: Brahms 3

A season-long Beethoven celebration continues with the composer’s dazzling Violin Concerto performed by the renowned Leonidas Kavakos, “the most deeply satisfying violinist performing today” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Riccardo Muti conducts this towering work along with a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands.

CSO Program Notes: Muti, Kavakos and Beethoven Violin Concerto

Brahms' final orchestral composition calls for deep lyricism and virtuosic technique from its soloists to create the illusion of a single instrument. CSO Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong and Assistant Principal Cello Kenneth Olsen take center stage for this exhilarating work. Riccardo Muti concludes the program with Schumann's Third Symphony, inspired by the composer's journey to the Rhineland.

CSO Program Notes: Brahms Double Concerto

Juanjo Mena conducts the CSO in a program featuring Holst’s powerful and haunting The Planets. Sally Matthews, a soprano of “incandescent verve” (The Times, London), performs two scenes from Barber’s 1966 opera that opened the Metropolitan Opera's new house at Lincoln Center. Detroit-based composer James Lee III’s celebratory Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula illustrates an ancient Hebrew harvest festival refracted through the lens of the Book of Revelation.

CSO Program Notes: Holst The Planets

Taking inspiration from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth explores fate, progressing from dark despair to defiant triumph. John Storgårds leads this powerfully expressive work, along with the first CSO performance of the deeply moving blue cathedral by Jennifer Higdon, winner of the 2018 Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The dazzling Ray Chen, making his CSO subscription series debut, brings his “liquid tone that carries with it emotional depth of great intimacy” (The Huffington Post) to the youthful bravura of Wieniawski’s First Violin Concerto.

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CSO Program Notes: Higdon & Tchaikovsky 4

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CSO Program Notes: Muti Andsnes & Grieg Piano Concerto

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