Overview
The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and Youth Orchestra will be closing their season with a concert dedicated to the mystical. They will perform Paganini’s famous piece ‘Le Streghe’ (Witches Dance) as well as a number of other pieces dealing with magic.
The concert will be replete with images of the eternal battle between the forces of good and evil as in Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain”, or Paganini’s demonic musical depiction of a band of witches (inspired by Sussmayr’s “Die Zauberschwestern im Beneventer Walde” or “The Magic Sisters in the Beneventan Woods” or even Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”, in whose fifth movement, the protagonist, an artist tortured by a relentless obsession of the perfect, yet unattainable woman, in desperation, slips into a nightmare depicted musically by the thrilling, horrific “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”.
All the concerts held in various districts will begin at 21:00, and entrance is €12, €7 for ages 18-26 and pensioners. Individuals under 18 will pay an entrance of €5.
Locations
Nicosia: Monday 2 July 2018, Skali Amphitheatre of Aglantzia
Paphos: Tuesday 3 July 2018, Tala Amphitheatre
Larnaca: Wednesday 4 July 2018, Patticheion Municipal Amphitheatre
Program
Mussorgsky: Night on bald mountain
Paganini: Le streghe (Witches dance) for violin and orchestra, op. 8
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, H. 48
CyYSO soloists: Maria Petrou (violin), Orestis Papatryphonos (violin)
Conductor: Jens Georg Bachmann
