Hear Maestro Tchivzhel give insights about Rossini’s Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Audio recording from the GSO’s live performances March 3-4, 2017, led by Maestro Tchivzhel included below. The full performance from that evening can be found on Carolina Live and includes an impressive program from the fourth Masterworks concert, titled: “Musical Desserts and Magic,” featuring violinist Roman Kim.

See the excerpt below and click here for a full recording on Carolina Live from March 3-4, 2017 of the GSO, led by Edvard Tchivzhel.

The concert opens with Gioacchino Rossini’s “La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture,” made famous in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, “A Clockwork Orange.” The concert continues with the Greenville debut of the virtuoso violinist, Kim. He will perform Niccolo Paganini’s “Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 6 in D major.” Kim, 25, has performed to sold out halls throughout the world, including Germany, Spain, Israel, Italy, Russia, China, France, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Taiwan, South Korea, and the United States.

The concert closes with Antonin Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 in E minor (From the New World).” Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” is inspired by the beauty of America, and influenced by African-American and Native American folk songs.