CBSO concert with Eugene Tzikindelean as conductor and violin soloist, featuring Beethoven's Violin Concerto and two of his overtures.
Eugene Tzikindelean takes on double duty at Town Hall on Sunday 29 November, conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and stepping out as soloist for Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It's one of the big ones — a piece described as one of the most beautiful and quietly revolutionary things Beethoven ever wrote.
The concerto doesn't stand alone. The first half of the programme is built around Beethoven's relationship with the theatre, which was a bit of a struggle for him. He only ever finished one opera, Fidelio, and Leonore was one of the many overtures he tried out for it. Alongside that are two dramatic orchestral overtures written for the stage: the tragic Coriolan and the spirited, ultimately triumphant Egmont. Both open the concert, so the Violin Concerto takes centre stage after the interval.
Tzikindelean is the CBSO's concertmaster, and he's born into a musical family in Romania, educated in Bucharest and Paris. He's picked up top prizes at the Enescu Competition, the Carl Nielsen International Competition and the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, and has guest-led the Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie and the BBC Philharmonic. Here, he's doing the conducting and the soloing in one go.
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The whole thing runs about an hour and 45 minutes, with a 20-minute interval in the middle. It starts at 3:00pm, and tickets are £27.50 to £53, with a £4 per-ticket commission included in every ticket priced over £15.
