BNP Paribas Wealth Management Proudly Sponsors: Gautier Capuçon Plays Shostakovich
CLASSICS
8 MAY 2025 (Thu) 8:00pm
9 MAY 2025 (Fri) 8:00pm
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall
For ages 6 and above
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Programme
2025 marks a double musical anniversary: the 150th birthday of Ravel and the 50th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich. This special French May Arts Festival concert opens with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, under the baton of Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz. The debonair French cellist Gautier Capuçon takes centre stage for Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. Renowned for its demanding main cadenza written for the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich, this concerto is considered a pinnacle of the 20th-century cello repertoire. The concert concludes with three vibrant orchestral pieces by Ravel.
The concert runs approximately 90 minutes with an intermission.
Artists
- No eating or drinking
- No photography, recording or filming
- Please turn off your mobile phone and other electronic devices
- Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance
- Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work
- Stalls C1-2/61-62, AA1-7/94-100, BB1-8/94-101 & HH27
- Wheelchair Box 1-2
Other Activities
Free Pre-concert Talk
- Date and Venue
- 8 MAY 2025 (Thu) 7:15pm-7:45pm (Conducted in English)
Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
- 9 MAY 2025 (Fri) 7:15pm-7:45pm (Conducted in Cantonese)
AC2, 4/F, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
- Speaker
Mr Jimmy Shiu
Music Practitioner