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Cho-Liang Lin celebrates American music and living composers with Albany Symphony
May 10, 2012
Just three weeks after giving the premiere of John Harbison's First Violin Sonata, violinist Cho-Liang Lin joins the Albany Symphony on May 19 for the capstone concert of its season, a celebration of American music and living composers. As a soloist with the Orchestra, Lin will perform Joan Tower’s Violin Concerto. For Tower, the work “is really a fantasy for violin and orchestra exploring different kinds of feelings that range from a robust Romantic tune for orchestra to sharply etched rhythmic punctuations to a very soft passage that descends from the highest celestial reaches of the violin.” The evening will also include the music of Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty, and Zhou Long, as well as the world premiere of a new work by Missy Mazzoli.
Pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins Cho-Liang Lin for San Diego Symphony chamber recital
April 29, 2012
Following his concert performances with the San Diego Symphony, Cho-Liang Lin and his longtime musical partner pianist Jon Kimura Parker present a chamber recital at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California on May 1. Lin and Kimura Parker join the San Diego Symphony’s principal horn Benjamin Jaber in a performance of Brahms’s Horn Trio. The evening will also include the Octet for Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Strings: À huit by the twentieth-century neoclassical French composer Jean Françaix. This San Diego Symphony chamber concert concludes with Franz Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet in A Minor, so named for its variations on the composer’s eponymous lied, “Die Forelle.”
San Diego Symphony concerts explore the music and legends of love
April 19, 2012
On April 26 and 28, Cho-Liang Lin joins the San Diego Symphony as the featured soloist in a concert program dedicated to the music and stories of ill-fated romance. Lin will perform Chen Gang and He Zhanghao’s The Butterfly Lovers concerto, based on one of China’s most widely known legends. Lin will also play The Love (2009), a violin concerto written especially for him in honor of his 50th birthday by Tan Dun. The Love is a musical look back at the ardor of youth from the perspective of maturity. For Tan Dun, “This is a piece about memory... It is called The Love, but it is also a statement about personal understanding at different stages of life. Many times, things that happen to you as a teenager will only return once we’re very old. Only when we’re old do we think so much about young love.”
To frame these two concertos, the San Diego Symphony, conducted by Music Director Jahja Ling, performs Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy.
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Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Cho-Liang Lin
