Upper Wharfedale Concert Club

2.5 - Halle Orchestra (Beethoven)

Event Date: Fri 24 April 2020
Event Time: 19:30 hrs
Venue: St. George's Hall, Bradford
Cost: £34.00
Order Tickets From: 29/01/2020
Final Date For Booking: 19/02/2020

COACH PICK-UP TIMES: Hebden - 5.30pm   Grassington - 5.35pm   Hedgerow - 5.45pm   Old Hall - 5.50pm   Cracoe - 5.55pm

Beethoven’s life is the stuff of romantic legend – the solitary creator shaking his fist at fate. His music, revolutionary yet characterised by humanity and dramatic power, remains universally appealing and his Leonore Overture No.3 opens this celebratory concert.

The young American/Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, already well established through visits to major orchestras in the States and Europe, is Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Although Beethoven’s First Symphony reveals the composer’s indebtedness to Haydn and Mozart, its fusion of lyricism and propulsive energy is indelibly stamped with his personality.

Antje Weithaas’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is renowned for its wonderful artistry: ‘virtuosic and animated, technically flawless, with breathtakingly intensity’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

Principle People:

• Alondra de la Parra : Conductor
• Antje Weithaas : Violin

Programme:

• BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No.3
• BEETHOVEN Symphony No.1
• BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Violin soloist

Antje Weithaas’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is renowned for its wonderful artistry.

30 March 2020: At the present time St. George's Hall has not formally cancelled this programme although we expect them to do so anytime at all. When that happens we will hopefully be fully reimbursed at which point we will contact all members who have booked and paid for this outing to arrange refunds. Thank you for your patience. Any questions feel free to contact our treasurer.