Delightful virtuosity with Vieuxtemps
No city premiered so many ear-pleasing orchestral sounds as the Paris of the years around and around World War I. Conductor Juraj Valcuha put together a program in which fairy-tale brilliance was finely interwoven with pure entertainment. Stravinsky instilled in Parisian audiences a weakness for Russian folklore, while Ravel grossed in dashing miracle tones. Among all that beauty, Simone Lamsma lets the right arm spring up and down in Henri Vieuxtemps' delightfully virtuosic Fourth Violin Concerto.
Programme
Ravel Mother Goose (five children's pieces)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, opus 64
Stravinsky The firebird (suite, 1945 version)
Ravel La valse (poème choréographique)
Performers
Jamie Phillips
conductor
