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13.4.2010 Finely chiselled classics
This Wednesday, two musical stars will cross at the concert of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra: an established conductor, Ronald Zollman, who, according to the critics, shapes the musical material with the skill of an Antique sculptor, and a rising star – violinist Anna Tifu, who will perform Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, playing the violin crafted by 18th-century master Carlo Bergonzi. On April 14th, at 7pm, conducting the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra in its 50th anniversary series, Ronald Zollman with also present his interpretations of the scores by Joseph Haydn and Igor Stravinsky.
Italian violinist Anna Tifu made her debut at La Scala in Milan, performing the Max Bruch Violin Concerto No.1. Among her numerous teachers (with who she studied at the Cagliari Conservatory, W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Paris Conservatoire) she herself distinguished the famous Italian violin virtuoso Salvatore Accardo, who had described Anna Tifu as a violinist of extraordinary talent, suggestive expression and skilful technique, possessing a mature style of performance.
Meanwhile, the name of Belgian conductor Ronald Zollman became established at the international music scene back in the 1970s. He has conducted major British, German and American orchestras, has regularly collaborated with the famous London Sinfonietta, and at Pierre Boulez’s request, he became the conductor for the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris. He not only dedicates himself to the great symphonic works of the traditional repertoire, but is very active in the field of opera and is also particularly noted for his commitment to contemporary music. Yet, the conductor himself had mentioned that Mozart were the only composer he would like to meet on a desert island.
The concert will begin and end with the music of Joseph Haydn: the dramatic overture to the opera L’isola disabitata (The Desert Island) that echoed the spirit of the Sturm und Drang artistic movement and the Symphony No. 83 in G minor dubbed ‘The Hen’ for the clucking of strings and oboe in the first movement, reminding of the jerky back-and forth head motion of a walking hen. The soloist Anna Tifu will perform Mozart’s perhaps most popular Violin Concerto No. 3, the melodic softness and suggestive simplicity of which makes it different from the boisterous Concerto No. 4 and the electrifying No.5. The programme of the concert also includes Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D (‘Basler’) for string orchestra, in which the three-movement neo-baroque form well suits the ascetic and sometimes daring harmonic writing characteristic of modernism.
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