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Ho Chi Minh City hosts concert that featured work by Beethoven

Ho Chi Minh City hosts concert that featured work by Beethoven

Sunday, August 10, 2014, 10:35 GMT+7

A concert featuring world-renowned composers’ masterpieces was organized in southern Vietnam on Saturday.

The musical performance, which began at 8:00 pm at the Municipal Theater at 7 Cong Truong Lam Son in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1, enthralled classical music lovers with opera by Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc.

The first part of the concert boasted French composer Claude Debussy’s “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune” (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), a 10-minute symphonic poem for orchestra and his compatriot Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, FP 61, composed in 1932.

The second part, which was also the concert’s highlight, introduced Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 in C Minor, op. 67, one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and among the most frequently played symphonies.

The concert, under the baton of Vietnamese conductor Le Phi Phi, who has achieved success not only in Vietnam but also in the world, saw the performances of musicians from the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), Russian pianist Boris Kraljevic and Vietnamese pianist Le Ho Hai, who won the First Prize and Best Performance of the Prélude sur un meme accord by Henri Dutilleux at the Concours Musical Regional d’Ile-de-France in Paris in 1999.

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