Playing the concerto that William Walton dedicated to Jascha Heifetz on the 1714 Stradivarius once owned by Heifetz himself will be Akiko Suwanai, youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Estonia's Olari Elts is famous foremost for his unique interpretive style, which always makes intelligence, clarity and comprehensibility the key factors.
The two Romanian Rhapsodies accompanied Enescu throughout his life. Fifty years after conducting their premières, he was still including tonight's featured Rhapsody No. 1, on concert programmes, and selected it for the 1950 New York concert held to recognise his lifetime of work. During the 1930s, the violin concerto was greatly in vogue among modern composers, and the period yielded several crucially important works of the genre, including ones by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Sergei Pro...kofiev and Béla Bartók. It was at the end of the decade, though, in 1939 that the English composer William Walton composed his popular work. Closing the programme will be a popular composition by Finland's national composer, one whose interpretation continues to divide music lovers: although the composer denied the legitimacy of any such associations, many people relate his piece to the Finnish struggles for independence from the Russian Empire.
Presented by: Pannon Philharmonic
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