Name: Scheherazade
Start: 2024-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Auckland Town Hall

Organization

Admin

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Alan Buribayev

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Sylvia Jiang

Piano

Scheherazade

Auckland

New Zealand

Auckland Town Hall

Great Hall

Scheherazade: The Saqqara Bird Eötvös, M. (+2 More)

Public

The Saqqara Bird

Piano Concerto No. 2

Scheherazade Op. 35

Approved

Audience favourite Alan Buribayev takes the podium as Sylvia Jiang returns to join her home-town orchestra with Prokofiev’s steely, ferociously difficult concerto. Written when its composer was only 22 years old, it’s a suitable foil for this prodigiously gifted pianist.

Australian composer Melody Eötvös found her imagination sparked by a model of a bird, carved of sycamore 2000 years ago and discovered in an Egyptian tomb. Its purpose is totally unknown.

Rimsky-Korsakov, sparked by the Tales of the 1001 Nights, wrote a piece that was ‘a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images’. His much-loved suite is a fabulous orchestral showpiece.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble