Rachmaninoff with Natasha Paremski
Audience favorite Natasha Paremski returns with Rachmaninoff’s fiendishly demanding third piano concerto, a perfect showcase for her expert technique and dynamic style. The Westminster Symphonic Choir features in two works: Tchaikovsky’s beautiful a capella “Hymn of the Cherubim,” drawn from his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and Brahms’ Schicksalslied (“Song of Destiny”), an example of the great composer’s exceptional choral writing.
Hers was a deeply personal Rachmaninoff Third, by turns pensive and tempestuous, warmly songful and brazenly fast. - Chicago Tribune
Due to the length and type of performance, this concert is not suitable for children under the age of 5.
Program
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY / "Hymn of the Cherubim" from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41
Johannes BRAHMS / Schicksalslied
Sergei RACHMANINOFF / Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Key Notes 
- These performances mark audience favorite Natasha Paremski’s fourth appearance with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
- Brahms’ Schicksalslied translates to “Song of Destiny,” and is a setting of a poem written by German poet and philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin, scored for choir and orchestra.
- Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto, sometimes referred to as “a Mt. Everest for pianists,” was initially considered so difficult that after its premiere performances with the composer as soloist, it took decades for it to enter the mainstream.
Performers
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
Westminster Symphonic Choir – Donald Nally, director
Media
Listen to Natasha Paremski perform Rachmaninov's Etude-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5 in E-flat Minor:
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