Programme
\nIsang Yun
\nBara (1960)<\/p>\n
Bernstein
\nSerenade (after Plato\u2019s Symposium) (1954)<\/p>\n
Dvo\u0159\u00e1k
\nSymphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, \u201cFrom the New World\u201d<\/p>\n
Hong Kong Sinfonietta begins its star-studded 2018\/2019 season with a special concert tour with the 2018 Tongyeong Festival Orchestra* under the baton of the legendary Christoph Eschenbach. At the invitation of the Tongyeong International Music Festival, members of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta will join members of the TIMF Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and 7 other orchestras from Europe and Australia to form the Tongyeong Festival Orchestra and perform a total of 5 concerts in Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. The 78-year-old maestro will conduct 3 programmes through the \u201cnew worlds\u201d, beginning with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s New World Symphony at the end of the 19th century, through the works of Gershwin, Bernstein and Isang Yun in the 20th century, to the present day with Unsuk Chin and Wolfgang Rihm.<\/p>\n
The concert in Hong Kong also celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein with his Serenade, featuring none other than the visionary violinist Midori, whose 1986 performance of the work under the composer himself (Boston Symphony, Tanglewood) has since become a legend (the then 14-year-old prodigy had to change violin twice during the performance due to broken E-strings and played on perfectly)! The orchestra will also perform Isang Yun\u2019s Bara \u2013 inspired by the Korean cymbal bara used in the Buddhist ceremony Parach\u2019um, or the \u201cDance with the Cymbals\u201d, and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s New World Symphony.<\/p>\n
*The 2018 Tongyeong Festival Orchestra consists of musicians from Hong Kong Sinfonietta\u3001 Ensemble TIMF (Korea)\u3001 Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan)\u3001 NDR Sinfonieorchester, S\u00fcdwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz (Germany)\u3001 Philharmonia Z\u00fcrich, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen (Switzerland)\u3001 Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony (Australia)\u3001 Kremerata Baltica (The Baltic States)\u3001 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373314,373456],"area_type":[350138,350139],"event_language":[],"series":[387115,387814,387239],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1288005","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-music-en","event_category-music-western-instrumental-music-en","area_type-local","area_type-non-local","series-performance-series","series-2018-great-violin-concertos-3","series-great-violin-concertos","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1288005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1288005"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1288005"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1288005"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1288005"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1288005"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1288005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}