Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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This event took place on Wednesday 18 October 2023.
- Wednesday 18 October 2023
- Cadogan Hall
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Need to know
Repertoire
- Louise Farrenc Overture No.1
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
- Brahms Symphony No.4
Features
- Leslie Suganandarajah Conductor
- Fumiaki Miura Violin
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Brahms’ Fourth, and pure drama from Louise Farrenc.
Although they called her the “female Beethoven”, the nineteenth-century French composer Louise Farrenc was very much her own woman, and it is only now in the twenty-first century that we are rediscovering her ardently romantic, strikingly original music. Tonight, her stirring Overture is the gateway to a concert charged with poetry and emotion.
Violinist Fumiaki Miura is a real favourite with RPO audiences, and tonight he makes a very welcome return with Mendelssohn’s gloriously sweet and songful Violin Concerto.
We then voyage on into the raging storms and sunset colours of Brahms’s mighty final symphony, navigated by guest conductor Leslie Suganandarajah, Music Director of the Salzburg Landestheater.
RPO Annual Legacy Giving Concert
Large print versions and digital formats of the programme for this concert are available on request for customers with accessibility requirements. Please email your request to Doran Crowhurst crowhurstd@rpo.co.uk at least one full week before the performance.