Romantic Bruckner Plus Gidon Kremer Plays Schumann

Newmont Canada Masterworks Gold

Orpheum Theatre

Event Details

31 Jan 2020 —

Friday 8:00 pm

Orpheum Theatre

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01 Feb 2020 —

Saturday 8:00 pm

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Series Sponsor
Newmont Canada

Artists

Otto Tausk
VSO Music Director
Gidon Kremer
Violin
Michael Abramovich
Piano

Approx. 2h Performance

Program

Samy Moussa
Orpheus
Schumann
Cello Concerto (transcribed for violin)
Bruckner
Symphony No. 4, Romantic

Important Note

Join us at 7:00pm for a pre-concert talk.

“...simply inspired...” — BBC Music Magazine on Kremer

Gidon Kremer’s legendary combination of dazzling technique and painstaking musical insight will show us the brilliance of Schumann’s subtle and intimate Cello Concerto in this transcription for violin. Bruckner’s 4th and most popular Romantic symphony creates an almost Wagnerian world of delicate birdsong, medieval towns, and mounted knights bursting out into nature. David Gordon Duke describes Canadian composer/ conductor Samy Moussa as “a twentyfirst century Wagner.” You are about to discover why in this work that atmospherically sets the stage for the drama to come.

This concert is part of the 2019-2020 Masterworks Gold series.