Change of soloist
Unfortunately, due to illness, Sergei Krylov is no longer able to perform with us. We are grateful to Simone Lamsma for joining us at short notice and wish Sergei a speedy recovery.
Programme
- Lohengrin - Prelude to Act 1(10 mins)
- Violin Concerto(29 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No 1 in C minor(44 mins)
Performers
- Omer Meir Wellberconductor
- Sergej Krylovviolin
Concert Information
Russian violinist Sergej Krylov is this evening’s soloist for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. ‘Dreamt I was 12 years old and a virtuoso.’ So the 50-year-old Sibelius noted, wistfully, in his diary in 1915. Sibelius began his musical career with high hopes of becoming a concert violinist. When destiny forged another path for him, he expressed his relationship with his instrument through this, his only concerto; premiered in 1904, it is a work that combines intense virtuosity with profound depths of expression.
We also hear Brahms’s tempestuous First Symphony – completed by the composer aged forty-three, despite having been started some twenty years earlier. Initially dubbed as ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’ by critics – the work turned out to be something a lot more poetic and personal.
The Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin opens tonight’s programme and was Wagner’s first internationally recognized masterpiece.
Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by Judy Blezzard.
The concert will be finished by approximately 9.25pm.