Poulenc Organ Concerto
Thursday, April 29 @ 7:30 pm
Adès – Three Studies from Couperin
Poulenc – Concerto for organ, strings and timpani
Donald Hunt, organ
*This program will be available until May 28, 2021
This concert introduces Christ Church Cathedral’s Director of Music, Donald Hunt, in his Symphony debut performing Poulenc’s Concerto for organ, strings and timpani on the majestic instrument built in 2005 by the late Helmuth Wolff for this extraordinary space. Also included in the program is Adés’ Three Studies from Couperin, an offbeat and unexpected tribute to the French Baroque master.
Yoon Plays C.P.E Bach
Thursday, May 13 @ 7:30 pm
Telemann – Orchestral Suite La Bizarre in G major
C.P.E. Bach – Cello Concerto in A minor
Brian Yoon, cello
*This program will be available until June 11, 2021
A transitional figure between the Baroque and Classical periods, C.P.E Bach was J.S. Bach’s most celebrated son. His writing is wildly expressive and his Cello Concerto in A minor as played by VS principal cello Brian Yoon demonstrates why he had such a profound effect on the composers who followed him. Completing this program is Telemann’s Orchestral Suite: La Bizarre in G major.
Victoria Goes Broadway
Thursday, May 27 @ 7:30 pm
Classic Broadway
Selections from Sound of Music – Rodgers and Hammerstein (arr. Bennet)
Symphonic Dances from Fidler on the Roof – Jerry Bock (arr. Hearshen)
Selections from Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg (arr. Lowden)
Selections from Phantom of the Opera – Webber (arr.Custer)
Modern Broadway
Suite from Hamilton – Miranda (arr. Brubaker)
The Greatest Showman – Pasek and Paul, Trapanese (arr. O’Loughlin)
Highlights from Wicked – Schwartz (arr. Ricketts)
Giuseppe Pietraroia, conductor
*This program will be available until June 25, 2021
Soak in the bright lights and sounds of Broadway as the Victoria Symphony takes you on a trip to the Great White Way. MC Sean O’Loughlin and conductor Giuseppe Pietraroia join forces for a magical evening of Broadway’s greatest hits. Music from The Sound of Music, Les Misérables (Les Miz), Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera and more will surely delight your eyes and ears.
Tam Plays Mendelssohn
Thursday, June 24 @ 7:30 pm
Farrenc – Overture No. 2 in E-flat major
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor
Terence Tam, violin
*This program will be available until July 23, 2021
The last concert in the Victoria Symphony’s 2020-21 Virtual Season closes as it opened with a programme featuring Concertmaster Terence Tam. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is an undisputed romantic masterpiece that is paired here with a work by Louise Farrenc, a French composer of the same period as Mendelssohn who rejected Parisian tastes and pursued instead the ideals of German absolute music. Her Overture No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 24 is clearly influenced by Beethoven and evidence of why her music was performed widely in Europe during her lifetime.
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