Midori & Festival Strings Lucerne Perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Midori, violin
Festival Strings Lucerne

PROGRAM:

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
RAVEL (arr. Cliff Colnot): Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn M. 58 (1909)
Helena WINKELMAN: Papa Haydn’s Parrot, Hommage à Haydn
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

From heroic drama to sparkling wit, this program celebrates classical tradition through insights across centuries. Beethoven’s stirring Egmont Overture and radiant Symphony No. 2 frame Tchaikovsky’s virtuosic Violin Concerto. Ravel’s elegrant tribute to Haydn and Helena Winkelman’s imaginative Papa Haydn’s Parrot offer playful reflections on teh composer known as the “Father of the Symphony.” Together, these works showcase brilliance, lyricism, and enduring inspiration across generations of composers.

“The Orchestra’s mighty brass and fabled, rich-toned strings showed their strength.” – The Guardian (on Festival Strings Lucerne)

“Midori’s interpretation, in a word, was simply magical… No encore was needed; the audience was already speechless” – Houston Chronicle