SEASON OPENING: KLUXEN & LEONG – BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO

CHRISTIAN KLUXEN, conductor
KERSON LEONG, violin

John Estacio: Frenergy
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G major (orchestrated by Schoenberg)

VS launches the season with an energetic overture and a monumental concerto. Since his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010, Kerson Leong has been described as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period” (Toronto Star). The musical modernist Arnold Schoenberg paid tribute to “Brahms The Progressive” by orchestrating the latter’s Piano Quartet No.1. Hear this chamber work with fresh ears: in an orchestral setting that will make the most of its energetic Rondo alla Zingarese.