When Mozart, Weber came alive

When Mozart, Weber came alive
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bangalore: History was created on Sunday, when, for the first time, a full symphony orchestra performed in the J N Tata Auditorium on the IISc premises.
A team of 50-odd artists played different musical instruments, including the violin, flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet and timpani, to showcase the finest of compositions.
The Symphony Orchestra of India, which celebrated its first anniversary recently, was started as part of the National Centre of the Performing Arts (NCPA) by violinist Marat Bisengaliev.
The evening started with the symphony whetting the audience’s appetite with Sarasate’s Navarra (Spanish Dance) and Massenet’s Meditation, followed by Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. After the interval, the orchestra performed Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter). This was punctuated with an item that paid tribute to Dr Jamshed Bhabha, the founder of NCPA and a benefactor of SOI.
Bisengaliev played the violin for the first two pieces with Zane Dalal conducting the orchestra. A packed audience appreciated every note of music written by Mozart, Pablo de Saraste and Jules Massenet. It was, indeed, an evening to remember.
About Marat Bisengaliev
Born in Kazakhstan, the distinguished violinist and conductor became the first music director of the Symphony Orchestra of India in 2006. Bisengaliev, who is known as ‘a latter day Ysaye’, is the founder of the Kazakh Chamber Orchestra, West Kazakhstan Philharmonic and Turan Alem Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also an accomplished soloist.
He has performed in more than 35 countries across four continents.