Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony
Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony
Thursday, May 25—Sunday, May 28, 2023
Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony was inspired by a trip to the country that bears its name, and includes music inspired by local folk dances as well as a solemn religious procession the composer observed in Naples. Our very own Hai-Xin Wu performs Vieuxtemps’s Fifth Violin Concerto, a work that displays the full range of the instrument’s expressive capacity, from lilting lines to frenetic storms of rapid notes. The program opens with Haydn’s playful and light-hearted Symphony No. 64, whose Latin subtitle refers to changes brought by the passage of time.
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Program
Artists
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Katharina Wincor
conductor
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Hai-Xin Wu
violin
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