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ORCHESTRAL music has the power to lift, to rouse and inspire - and you don't have to be a classical music connoisseur to be moved. Watching 75 world-class musicians on stage is an incredibly life-affirming experience.
This October, your Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is travelling to China and South Korea to perform among some of the world's greatest orchestras.
At Master Series 9 - Zukerman's Elgar, we celebrate our return by performing the same music that will grace the most esteemed concert halls in Asia at Adelaide Town Hall.
Light and dark, good and evil, right and wrong. We know Beethoven best for his revolutionary symphonies and ideology; in his Egmont Overture we hear the rumblings of the future. This music is both born in conflict, and depicts it.
The incidental music to accompany Goethe's retelling of conflict and revolt in the Netherlands, Beethoven composed this during the Napoleonic wars struggle for Vienna. Setting the scene for such tumult, this music conjures the tyranny of invasion, cruelty of subjugation, hope of uprising, and triumph of revolution.
Mozart may have wanted to redefine himself by leaving the violin behind, his father a famous violin teacher, but there's not a hint of this in his Turkish Violin Concerto.
This is Mozart at his best, writing music full of imaginative possibility; a rapturous exploration of heartfelt beauty.
Mozart's youthful verve results in an unexpected turn in the last movement, and despite the suggestion of the soubriquet, folds Hungarian folk music into an elegant and refined finale.
You would be hard pressed to find music with more personality than Elgar's Enigma Variations, each of the 14 movements a musical portrait of those closest to the composer: his beloved wife, an old flame, a stuttering family friend.
A warm musical bucolic from the English countryside, this music catapulted Elgar to fame, and has remained one of the most popular works of all time.
We'll be performing all this with internationally renowned Pinchas Zukerman, our Artist in Association. Pinchas will direct the orchestra while performing solo violin for Mozart's Violin Concerto, before stepping up on the podium to conduct the orchestra through Beethoven and Elgar.
Zukerman's Elgar
Thu 31 Oct, 11.30am
Fri 1 Nov, 8pm
Sat 2 Nov, 6.30pm
Adelaide Town Hall
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