Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra The 154th Subscription Concert Unofficial

Symphony by Akira Ifukube, one of the world's greatest cellists & 110th anniversary of his birth

Tatsuya Shimono, who has been active with major orchestras in various regions and has also performed with PAC for about 20 years, will appear again this season.
The first half of the concert opens with Dvorak's Cello Concerto with Mario Brunello, renowned as one of the world's best cellists, as the soloist. It is a pleasure to hear this work, one of the most popular cello concertos of all time, performed by the virtuoso Brunello! Expectations were high.
The second half of the concert was Shostakovich's "Elegy" from "Two Pieces for String Quartet. This is a variation of the beautiful aria from the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk County," in which Shostakovich laments his lonely married life, and is performed for string ensemble. The final piece is "Sinfonia Tapukara," composed by Akira Ifukube at the same time as "Godzilla. Tapukāra" means "to stand up and dance" in Ainu language, and this symphony is one of the representative works of Ifukube, a native of Hokkaido, as it evokes the magnificent nature of Hokkaido and the scenes of people dancing continuously.
Maestro Tatsuya Shimono will lead you through these three dramatic pieces.