KLUXEN & TAM – BARTÓK VIOLIN CONCERTO & BEETHOVEN’S EROICA

CHRISTIAN KLUXEN, conductor
TERENCE TAM, violin

Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica”

Three heroic works are featured, beginning with Subito con forza, by South Korea’s Unsuk Chin. Her orchestral miniature is “haunted by Beethovenian gestures…amid Chin’s own exquisite orchestral palette – icy shivers of strings, rasping woodwind and ghostly muted trumpets” (The Guardian). In producing his Violin Concerto No. 2, Bartók followed in the footsteps of Beethoven and Brahms with a work that was quickly championed by Yehudi Menuhin—here played by VS Concertmaster Terence Tam. Beethoven’s monumental Eroica Symphony was bigger and longer than anything that preceded it, and it remains a colossus of the musical literature today.