Sergei Nakariakov & Maria Meerovitch

"When the audience smiles or laughs directly at the performance of my works, it gives me great satisfaction." These words by Dmitri Shostakovich could be the motto of his first piano concerto. Already in his 24 Preludes, which Shostakovich had composed in the same year 1933, he showed a slight tendency to humour. In the first piano concerto, satire and comedy are unmistakable. Here the still carefree 26-year-old composer shows himself in all the splendour of his talent. In combination with the Concertino for trumpet, piano and string orchestra by the French composer André Jolivet as well as works by three Bach sons, this concert evening with Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Maria Meerovitch (piano) and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Willi Zimmermann promises to be an inspiring journey of discovery.

**Program:**

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784)
Symphony in F major, Fk 67 (c. 1740–45) 12′
Vivace | Andante | Allegro | Menuetto

André Jolivet (1905–1974)
Concertino for trumpet, string orchestra
and piano (1948) 10′
Allegro | Meno vivo | Allegro

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Symphony in B minor, Wq.182/5 (1773) 10′
Allegretto | Larghetto | Presto

Intermission 20′

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)
Symphony in D minor, WFV I:3 (1768) 8′
Allegro | Andante amoroso | Allegro assai

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Adagio and Allegretto for string orchestra,
edited by Christian Sikorski (1931) 8′
Elegy: Adagio | Polka: Allegretto

Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for piano, trumpet and
String Orchestra in C minor, op. 35 (1933) 22′
Allegretto | Lento | Moderato | Allegro con brio