Fabio Luisi conducts Beethoven
Barber's Violin Concerto featuring James Ehnes and Copland's Quiet City
Under the baton of Fabio Luisi, the Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Copland's atmospheric Quiet City and Beethoven's breezy Symphony No. 8. James Ehnes is the soloist in Barber's wistful Violin Concerto.
After the wistful and deeply felt first two movements, the music eventually erupts in a devilish finale.
Concert programme
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Aaron Copland
Quiet City
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Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8
Performers
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Fabio Luisi
conductor
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James Ehnes
violin
About this concert
With Fabio Luisi, we perform Beethoven's most cheerful symphony, the Eighth, preceded by two works full of melancholy, consolation and contemplation by American composers. Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 has always stood in the shadow of its brash big sister, the Seventh. Unjustly so, thinks conductor Fabio Luisi. Of all of Beethoven’s symphonies, the Eighth is in any case the wittiest with amusing and novel ideas in each movement. For example, an absurdly humorous effect is created by Beethoven placing an elegant and graceful melody that could easily come straight from a Rossini opera over woodwinds imitating a metronome.
In Aaron Copland's dreamy Quiet City, trumpet and alto oboe steal the show. Samuel Barber's melodious Violin Concerto puts Canadian violinist James Ehnes centre stage. After the wistful and deeply felt first two movements, the music eventually erupts in a devilish finale.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
With Fabio Luisi, we perform Beethoven's most cheerful symphony, the Eighth, preceded by two works full of melancholy, consolation and contemplation by American composers. Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 has always stood in the shadow of its brash big sister, the Seventh. Unjustly so, thinks conductor Fabio Luisi. Of all of Beethoven’s symphonies, the Eighth is in any case the wittiest with amusing and novel ideas in each movement. For example, an absurdly humorous effect is created by Beethoven placing an elegant and graceful melody that could easily come straight from a Rossini opera over woodwinds imitating a metronome.
In Aaron Copland's dreamy Quiet City, trumpet and alto oboe steal the show. Samuel Barber's melodious Violin Concerto puts Canadian violinist James Ehnes centre stage. After the wistful and deeply felt first two movements, the music eventually erupts in a devilish finale.