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Seong-Jin Cho Returns + The Poem of Ecstasy

Thu, Sep 28–Sat, Sep 30, 2023 Roy Thomson Hall
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A feast for the senses, this evocative program opens with an imaginative musical journey through touch, smell, taste, sound and sight by Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez Bellido. Maurice Ravel’s lush and sensual Rapsodie espagnole captures the intoxicating flavours, sounds, and colours of Spain, while his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, filled with dazzling cadenzas and left-hand acrobatics, beguiles listeners into an illusion of two hands touching the keys, performed by the incomparable Seong-Jin Cho. The program concludes with the sumptuous Poem of Ecstasy by Alexander Scriabin, a musical depiction of experiences that transcend the physical senses and exist on a mystical plane.

Program

Jimmy López Bellido

Synesthésie

North American Première

11'

Ravel

Rapsodie espagnole

15'

Intermission

Ravel

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major

19'

Scriabin

The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54

Symphony No. 4

22'

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Performers

Gustavo Gimeno

conductor

Seong-Jin Cho

piano
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Presented at

Roy Thomson Hall

60 Simcoe St, Toronto, ON M5J 2H5

Thu, Sep 28–Sat, Sep 30, 2023