Monterey Symphony: Ecstasy

Max Bragado-Darman, conductor
Dubravka Tomsic, piano

Leonard Bernstein - Overture to Candide
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Modest Mussorgsky (Arr. Maurice Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition

Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to the Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser (see next page), and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of the Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease… Show more and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A promenade through Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition honors the piano as inspiration to the infinite possibilities of the orchestra in the hands of master composer/orchestrator Maurice Ravel.

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