MPO Valletta 2018 International Tour – North Bethesda

MPO Valletta 2018 International Tour – North Bethesda
29th November 2018 MPO Marketing

MPO Valletta 2018 International Tour – North Bethesda

DATE: 29/11/2018
TIME: 8:00 PM till 10:30 PM



Presented in collaboration with the European Foundation for Support of Culture.

SERGEY SMBATYAN Conductor
INGOLF WUNDER Piano

Joseph Vella Rebbieħa, Op. 45
Alexey Shor Travel Notebook
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

This season’s tour concert will see the orchestra open with Rebbieħa, a symphonic poem written by the late Gozitan composer Joseph Vella, before being joined by Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder for Alexey Shor’s Travel Notebook suite for piano and orchestra.

Written months after his official denunciation, at the height of the Soviet Union’s Great Purge, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony famously ends with a cheerful finale that contrasts starkly with the tone of the rest of the work. Whether this is a faithful representation of the heroic ending the regime sought or a mocking satire is debated to this very day.



LOCATION: The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda