MARC PIOLLET, conductor
ANDREW WAN, OSM concertmaster
WEBER, Overture to Der Freischütz
MENDELSSOHN, Violin Concerto in E minor
BARTOK, Concerto for orchestra
For Serge Koussevitzky, at the time music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was quite simply “the finest work of the last twenty-five years.” In it the Hungarian composer reveals all the virtuosity an orchestra is capable of, engaging the various instrument groups in dialogue with the rest of the ensemble, in five movements that gradually make their way to an affirmation of life.
Andrew Wan, concertmaster with the OSM and Grand Prize winner at the 2008 OSM Standard Life Competition, will perform Mendelssohn’s lyrical and dazzling Concerto in E minor.
