20:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
12:30 hrs. Teatro Degollado
PROGRAM 1
BRAHMS BRILLIANCE BY OSORIO AND THE OFJ • Inaugural Concert 2015
Marco Parisotto, Music Director
Jorge Federico Osorio, Piano
Johannes BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, op.83
Soloist: Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Cesar FRANCK, Symphony in D minor
Just two weeks into the year 2015, the OFJ begins its artistic activities by welcoming one of the most outstanding Mexican musicians on the planet: pianist Jorge Federico Osorio. A favorite of the Tapatio (Guadalajara) public, Osorio is recognized as one of the finest interpreters of the music of Johannes Brahms, whose Concerti for piano and orchestra have been magnificently performed by Maestro Osorio not only in Mexico, but also in the most important venues of the United States and Europe. To begin the festivities of the 100th anniversary of symphonic tradition in Guadalajara, Maestro Osorio will offer his toast to the OFJ with Johannes Brahms` second piano concerto, Op.83, certainly the most majestic score of the nineteenth century piano literature, and, perhaps, of the piano repertoire of all times. The score was completed in 1881, and Brahms himself performed in the world première.
In the second half of the program, Maestro Marco Parisotto will again take the helm to direct another monumental orchestral work: the Symphony in D Minor by Belgian composer César Franck. Premiered in 1889 by the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Franck`s only symphony was incomprehensible to the Parisian public, cyclic in character and rooted as it was in the German post-romantic orchestral tradition. The passing of time and the indisputable quality of this symphony by César Franck have earned it a place in our present-day consideration as one of the most solid symphonic works of the French-speaking world, alongside the towering Third Symphony of Camille Saint-Saëns.
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Friday, January 16, 2015
8:30 PM, Teatro Degollado
Sunday, January18, 2015
12:30 PM, Teatro Degollado