Fliter Plays Chopin

Anna Sulkowska-Migon, conductor
Ingrid Fliter, piano
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

KILAR: Orawa
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 11
BORODIN: Symphony No. 2
BORODIN: “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor

From Polish film composer Wojciech Kilar’s beautiful Orawa, a celebration of the mountain fiddle-players of Southern Poland, to Borodin’s legendary "Polovtsian Dances", conjuring up the wild dancing of ancient nomadic tribespeople in Southern Russia, this program is banquet of music from the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia. At the center are Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, written when the great Polish composer and patriot was just 20 years old, and Borodin’s brilliantly colorful and tuneful Second Symphony, evoking the uproarious and warlike merrymaking of mediaeval knights-in-armor, with their ancient bards and strange-sounding folk-instruments.