CANCELLED because of Coronavirus - Sheherazade and Patricia Kopatchinskaya

Gustavo Gimeno and daredevil Patricia Kopatchinskaja perform a new violin concerto by the Spaniard Francisco Coll. A delightful concert, also because of the exotic sounds of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.

New violin concerto by Francisco Coll
The Englishman Thomas Adès is no teacher. Yet the composer/pianist who has performed his work many times at the Saturday Matinee made an exception for the Spaniard Francisco Coll. Adès recognised in him a strikingly individual and unusual spirit and took him on as his first and, for the time being, only pupil. Coll has since stood on his own two feet, won various prizes and written extremely virtuoso music for orchestra. Reason enough for the NTR Saturday Matinee to put him in the limelight and pair him with an equally unusual mind: for violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, one of the greatest daredevils of classical music, Coll wrote a violin concerto.

Exoticism in Sheherazade and Ravel's Spanish Rhapsody
The Sheherazade in the eponymous masterpiece by the Russian and traveller Rimsky-Korsakov appears in constantly changing roles (and what a wonderful violin solo in the orchestra!). Spain even sounds somewhat exotic in the Rapsodie espagnole by the half-Spaniard Maurice Ravel.