Prokofiev & Piazzolla

Sergei Prokofiev's interpretation of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet as ballet music contains the composer's best-known and most compelling music. No one could have done it better - Prokofiev makes use of his gift for personal melodies and his characteristic combination of sharp edge and soft, romantic core. Gemma New, an outstanding young conductor from New Zealand, makes her Danish debut this evening with her own selection of movements from Prokofiev's glittering ballet score, and brings more danceable music along with her. The Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz impressively manages to tune the symphony orchestra in to present-day Mexico in her work Antrópolis, whose synthesis of Mexico City's nightclubs makes the orchestra groove, play and pulsate. The Danish accordionist Bjarke Mogensen is the soloist in what many regard as Astor Piazzolla's greatest work. In Aconcagua the great pioneer of Argentine "new tango" shows how varied, sophisticated and moving the style can be. The piece moves from intensely focused to a more relaxed tango style - without missing a single beat along the way. Programme: Ortiz / Antrópolis (Danish premiere) Piazzolla / Aconcagua Prokofiev / Romeo and Juliet, excerpts

• Dirigent: Gemma New
• Bjarke Mogensenakkordeon

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Sergej Prokofjev: Romeo og Julie, op. 64

Whole work

The concert plays an excerpt of the work.

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