Shelley & Yeol Eum Son
with the NAC Orchestra
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/36121
In-person event
Music Director Alexander Shelley welcomes guest pianist Yeol Eum Son to interpret Strauss. A 25-year-old composer grapples with life’s big questions and a contemporary composer answers with a mystical journey. Jazz and classical meet in one pretty concerto from Maurice Ravel. Music Director and Maestro Alexander Shelley leads global phenom Yeol Eum Son and the NAC Orchestra in an interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel,...
Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
- RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan, Op. 20
- Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major
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Kevin Lau The Infinite Reaches (NACO commission)
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RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24
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- In-person event
- Bilingual
- ≈ 2 hours · With intermission
- Music Director Alexander Shelley welcomes guest pianist Yeol Eum Son to interpret Strauss.
- A 25-year-old composer grapples with life’s big questions and a contemporary composer answers with a mystical journey.
- Jazz and classical meet in one pretty concerto from Maurice Ravel.
Music Director and Maestro Alexander Shelley leads global phenom Yeol Eum Son and the NAC Orchestra in an interpretation of classical and contemporary pieces by Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, and Kevin Lau.
To start the evening, the audience will experience Richard Strauss’s Don Juan following shameless womanizer through days and nights of promiscuity, debauchery, and cruel desire—until he meets a deserved and mournful end.
Famously opening with the sound of a whip crack, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G is jazz-tinged one moment and serene the next—one of the prettiest pieces of music ever written. Here, South Korean-born Son finds the true essence of Ravel’s fantastic piano concerto.
At the ripe old age of 25, Richard Strauss was already grappling with the loftiest and most fundamental questions of human experience in his Tod und Verklärung—or “Death and Transfiguration.” The Infinite Reaches, Kevin Lau’s companion piece to Strauss’s work, journeys along the mythical shores of the underworld.
