Brahms Violin Concerto Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:30am Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8:00pm JoAnn Falletta, conductor Elmar Oliveria, violin
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Program Information
Schumann - Manfred Overture Brahms - Violin Concerto Brahms - Symphony No.2 in D major
The second Brahms Festival program directed by JoAnn Falletta
opens with a work by Brahms' mentor, Robert Schumann, whose exalted Manfred Overture
was inspired by the poetry of Lord Gordon Byron. The composer noted:
"Never have I written with such love and with such expenditure of my
powers." In turn follows Brahms' Violin Concerto featuring acclaimed violinist Elmar Oliveira as
soloist. The Brahms commemoration will close with the composer's Symphony No.2,
a work Arnold Schönberg described as "Brahms' musical prose" -
altogether light and grace, with soaring themes and a technicolor
orchestration.
Artist Profile
Elmar Oliveira is one of the most
commanding
violinists of our time, with his unsurpassed combination of impeccable
artistry and old-world elegance. Oliveira is one of the few major
artists committed to the entire spectrum of
the violin world, constantly expanding traditional repertoire
boundaries as a
champion of contemporary music and rarely-heard works of the past,
devoting
energy to the development of the young artists
of tomorrow and enthusiastically supporting the art of modern violin
and bow
makers.
Among his generation's most honored artists, Elmar
Oliveira remains the first and only
American violinist to win the Gold Medal at Moscow's Tchaikovsky International
Competition. He is also the first violinist to receive the coveted Avery Fisher
Prize, in addition to capturing First Prizes at the Naumburg International
Competition and the G. B. Dealey Competition.
