The OSM Performs Rachmaninoff and Amy Beach 2024-2025
Amy Beach rose to prominence as a composer with her “Gaelic” Symphony, a work which celebrates diverse legacies in America.
Rachmaninoff’s pianistic virtuosity was legendary, a fact he made markedly obvious in his Piano Concerto no. 3, in which rising star Marie-Ange Nguci will make her OSM debut. Drawing on Irish, Scottish, and English folklore, Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony celebrates an array of diverse cultural legacies in the United States, and with this sumptuously orchestrated work she established herself as a composer of stature.
Artists
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Marie-Ange Nguci, piano
Programme
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30 (39 min.)
Intermission (20 min)
Amy Beach, Symphony in E minor, op. 32, ‘‘Gaelic’’ (41 min.)
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Marie-Ange Nguci
PianoMarie-Ange Nguci has performed in prestigious venues such as the Vienna Musikverein, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Tonhalle Zürich, Sydney Opera House, Oslo Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Auditorium de Radio France and Teatro della Pergola in Florence. She rose to wide public attention in 2018 with the release of her first CD, En miroir on the Mirare label. This recording featured the piano works of composers best known as organists and improvisers—Franck, Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Escaich, and won the coveted Choc de Classica as well as being warmly praised in the press. Accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 in the class of Nicholas Angelich, Nguci studied orchestral conducting at Vienna’s Musik und Kunst Universität and was admitted at the age of 18 to the PhD-DMA degree program in Music at the City University of New York.
