Oeuvre: Souvenir d'un lieu cher: Mélodie en mi bémol majeur pour violon et piano, Op.42 no. 3

Die Münchner Symphoniker verbinden bei ihrer Kammermusikreihe „Sommermusik” leichte und ernste Musik und das klappt überraschend gut.

Now in its fourth and final week, the Mostly Mozart Festival welcomed one of the biggest names on its lineup, Joshua Bell, to Avery Fisher Hall as guest soloist. Music Director Louis Langrée conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in a program of Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

Celebrating the worldwide release of his first orchestral album, Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos, Ray Chen presented a fairly typical selection of classical music: Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns. But from the moment Chen took to the stage at (Le) Poisson Rouge, it was clear the evening’s concert was bound to break a few rules.