There’s something magical about a New Year concert, giving you a skip in your step to start the year feeling upbeat.
New Year would simply not be complete without your favourite Viennese waltzes and polkas. The programme is enhanced by Joseph Swensen both conducting and performing favourites on the violin, including Massenet’s gorgeous Meditation and his own arrangement of Three Romances by Clara Schumann. She wrote these three lovely miniatures for violin and piano as a gift for violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms hinted to his friend about the anticipated gift, “you can certainly look forward with great pleasure to what is coming.” The Romances are beautifully dreamy, characteristically noble and passionate.
BRAHMS, DVOŘÁK, GRIEG, J STRAUSS II, ROSSINI, SCHUMANN CLARA - Composers
JOSEPH SWENSEN - Conductor
JOSEPH SWENSEN - Soloist
J STRAUSS II
Overture, Die Fledermaus (09')
Trisch-Tratsch Polka (04')
Pizzicato Polka (03')
Roses from the South (08')
Thunder and Lightning Polka (03')
An der schönen blauen Donau (09')
BRAHMS
Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor (03')
ROSSINI
Overture, The Thieving Magpie (Italian Edition) (10')
MASSENET
Meditation from Thaïs (05')
CLARA SCHUMANN arr SWENSEN
Three Romances op 22 for Violin and Orchestra (1853) (13')
GRIEG
Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite) (04')
DVOŘÁK
Slavonic Dance No 1 in C op 46 ‘Furiant’ (04')