KLUXEN & FENG – STRAUSS OBOE CONCERTO

CHRISTIAN KLUXEN, conductor
MICHELLE FENG, oboe

Mozart: Idomeneo Overture
R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Anna Höstmann: Saltwater (with the support of the Hugh Davidson Fund at the Victoria Foundation)
Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C major
John Adams: Shaking and Trembling

Richard Strauss idolised Mozart – although “modernising” Idomeneo was, perhaps, a step too far! Strauss’s Oboe Concerto is a magical, late-in-life work, played here by VS Principal Michelle Feng. Christian Kluxen also shakes up a three-movement Symphony with a non-Mozartean minuet, and premieres a VS commission from Victoria’s own Anna Höstman.