{"id":656,"date":"2017-06-16T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:37:09","slug":"farce-and-drama-two-concerts-with-the-gothenburg-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/2017\/06\/16\/farce-and-drama-two-concerts-with-the-gothenburg-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Farce and Drama: Two concerts with the Gothenburg Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 March and 1 April Dimitri Kitaenko conducts the Gothenburg Symphony at the Konserthus of the Swedish city. Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Serenade for strings opens the program, followed by Naughty Limericks, the proper name given by Rodion Shchedrin to his 1963 Concerto for orchestra No. 1. Shchedrin incorporated in that work a number of chastushka, traditional,often humour-filled urban songs from Russia. Scored for a big orchestra, the long single-movement is indeed a brilliant and very virtuosic farce.<!--more--><br \/>\nRussian mezzo Agunda Kulaeva is the soloist in the concert&#8217;s main work, Sergei Prokofiev&#8217;s cantata Alexander Nevski op. 78. It comes from the score that the composer wrote for the legendary historic film of Sergei Eisenstein about Alexander Nevsky, a Russian hero of the 13th century. The Gothenburg Symphony is joined by its own symphonic choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 March and 1 April Dimitri Kitaenko conducts the Gothenburg Symphony at the Konserthus of the Swedish city. Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Serenade for strings opens the program, followed by Naughty Limericks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}