SOI Autumn 2018 Season: Mussorgsky, Mozart & Sibelius

National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai NCPA Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai

Alexander Lazarev, conductor > Katherine Bicknell, flute > Daniela Iolkicheva, harp > Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto in C Major, K. 299 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 This concert, conducted by Alexander Lazarev, opens with the orchestral prelude to Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina, left unfinished at his death in 1881, and subsequently revised and completed by Rimsky-Korsakoff. The prelude is an exquisite little tone poem that he titled Dawn on the Moscow River. It is not a sunburst, but the […]