The 2024 InClassica International Music Festival continues on Saturday 3rd February, as Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen returns to head the Berlin Symphony Orchestra once more, in a concert featuring the talents of French/Belgian cellist Camille Thomas, an Exclusive Deutsche Grammophon Artist since April 2017. Together, the musicians shall present audiences in Dubai with a lively programme starting with Johannes Brahms’ celebrated Hungarian Dance No. 5, a highly energetic, exciting and passionate Hungarian folk dance that is by far the most famous and renowned entry amongst the set of 21 dances that Brahms wrote between 1869 and 1879. Next comes Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor’s Cello Concerto No 2 in F Major, a much-loved work in three movements that saw its world premiere taking place in May 2021, and since then has quickly become one of Shor’s most popular pieces for the instrument. The concert shall then close with one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most beloved compositions – the Symphony No. 2 in E minor. Composed in 1907, the work was first performed in Saint Petersburg in January 1908 where it was met with great acclaim, marking the beginning of a stellar reputation that it has retained up to this very day.
