Vancouver Symphony Orchestra present Mozart and Shakespeare in Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
Date/Time: Apr 23 2016, 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm
Vancouver, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBCCost: $28.00
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In a concert dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, VSO Conductor Laureate Kazuyoshi Akiyama presents the overture to Mendelssohn’s famous incidental music for the Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as a snippet of William Walton’s dreamy, beautiful music for Henry V. A pianist of extraordinary versatility and range, Gilles Vonsattel performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, called “perhaps the first unequivocal masterpiece of the Classical period.”
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor;
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Schumann - Symphony No. 2 in C Major
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme
Walton - Henry V: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture
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