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Violinismo - Exeter Symphony Orchestra Winter Concert
The ESO is delighted to showcase three Cherubim Music Trust award-winning violinists.
To open the Violinismo concert, Alexander Stejskal will perform the first part of the Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op 28 by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). This delightful work has been much played and arranged since its 1867 premiere; although marked andante malinconico it quickly gathers pace with virtuosic arpeggios and chromatic scales.
Next, Nirvana Che-Lai will play the allegro non troppo from the Sinfonia Espagnola in D minor, Op 21 by Édouard Lalo (1823-1892). The piece by Lalo, like the Saint-Saëns, written for the virtuoso Pablo Sarasate, is now regarded as a technically demanding concerto in five movements; it’s one of his most popular and joyous works.
Finally, Rose Gosney will perform the allegro moderato from the Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Tchaikovsky’s great work, directly inspired by Lalo’s Spanish-themed piece, stands firm among the ‘Great Five’ concertos for violin. After a brief orchestral introduction, the violin makes a cadenza-like entrance before virtuosic scales and double/triple-stopping lead to a majestic climax.
The second half of the concert will be devoted to the Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), perfected over very many years. Fixated by his perceived inadequacy to continue ‘Beethoven’s inheritance’ and his innate, self-critical fastidiousness, Brahms was at length satisfied with the masterwork we love today. There is much to enjoy over four movements, but significantly the finale features his first inclusion of trombones which are entrusted to deliver, in concert with the horn section, the recurring‘Alphorn theme’. Overjoyed to have finally completed the piece, he announced to his life-long friend and fellow composer Clara Schumann: Thus blew the shepherd's horn today! There can be no doubting its place in the symphonic treasury
To open the Violinismo concert, Alexander Stejskal will perform the first part of the Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op 28 by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). This delightful work has been much played and arranged since its 1867 premiere; although marked andante malinconico it quickly gathers pace with virtuosic arpeggios and chromatic scales.
Next, Nirvana Che-Lai will play the allegro non troppo from the Sinfonia Espagnola in D minor, Op 21 by Édouard Lalo (1823-1892). The piece by Lalo, like the Saint-Saëns, written for the virtuoso Pablo Sarasate, is now regarded as a technically demanding concerto in five movements; it’s one of his most popular and joyous works.
Finally, Rose Gosney will perform the allegro moderato from the Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Tchaikovsky’s great work, directly inspired by Lalo’s Spanish-themed piece, stands firm among the ‘Great Five’ concertos for violin. After a brief orchestral introduction, the violin makes a cadenza-like entrance before virtuosic scales and double/triple-stopping lead to a majestic climax.
The second half of the concert will be devoted to the Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), perfected over very many years. Fixated by his perceived inadequacy to continue ‘Beethoven’s inheritance’ and his innate, self-critical fastidiousness, Brahms was at length satisfied with the masterwork we love today. There is much to enjoy over four movements, but significantly the finale features his first inclusion of trombones which are entrusted to deliver, in concert with the horn section, the recurring‘Alphorn theme’. Overjoyed to have finally completed the piece, he announced to his life-long friend and fellow composer Clara Schumann: Thus blew the shepherd's horn today! There can be no doubting its place in the symphonic treasury
Saturday 28 November
Southernhay United Reformed Church, Dix’s Field, Exeter, Devon EX1 1QD
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