Featured Performers

• Midori, violin
• Festival Strings Lucerne

Program

• BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture

• TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

• RAVEL (arr. Cliff Colnot): Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn M. 58 (1909)

• Helena WINKELMAN: Papa Haydn’s Parrot, Hommage à Haydn

• BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

This concert brings together two celebrated forces in classical music: violinist Midori, revered for her rare combination of virtuosity and insight, and the Festival Strings Lucerne, one of Europe’s most distinguished chamber orchestras. 

A new work by Swiss composer Helena Winkelman offers a fresh, compelling voice, bridging past and present. The program concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, a composition of youthful exuberance and joyful defiance, written at a turning point in the composer’s life. 

The orchestra’s mighty brass and fabled, rich-toned strings showed their strength.

The Guardian (on Festival Strings Lucerne)

Midori’s interpretation, in a word, was simply magical... No encore was needed; the audience was already speechless.

Houston Chronicle

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