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2024–25 Season

The Four Seasons

Oct 8, 2024  at 7:00PM

Featured Artists

Austin Chanu

Conductor

David Kim

Violin

This audience favorite program featuring a musical mashup over 200 years in the making returns for one night only!

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Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons," composed just before his move from Italy to Vienna, stands as the pinnacle of Baroque music. These four spectacular violin concertos uniquely personify the seasons—Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter— through music, skillfully capturing the tumultuous fury of thunderstorms, the crystalline clarity of breaking ice, and the lively melodies of twittering birds. Each concerto unfolds with vivid imagery and emotional depth, painting a vibrant musical portrait of nature's ever-changing moods and landscapes.  

More than two centuries after Antonio Vivaldi composed his timeless "Four Seasons," Argentinian maestro Astor Piazzolla, renowned for infusing tango into classical music, crafted his own "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires." In this program, these unique suites are juxtaposed in hemispheric order, aligning Argentina's summer with Italy's winter and vice versa. Experience the shimmering, lyrical strings of Vivaldi followed by Piazzolla's fiery dance rhythms, enhanced with the percussive col legno technique. This centuries-spanning montage is a stunning showcase for Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster David Kim, celebrated for his scintillating, silken tone as praised by the New York Classical Review.

This concert is part of the Ellenberg Philadelphia Orchestra Soloist Spotlight Series.

Supported by The James and Agnes Kim Foundation, in partnership with the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Program

Bach

Air, from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Mozart

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G major, K. 525

Vivaldi

The Four Seasons

Piazzolla

The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, for violin and string orchestra

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For one night only, one of last season's most popular concerts returns! On Tuesday, October 8, The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform a combination of two pieces that are centuries apart—Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The fascinating juxtaposition between Vivaldi's bright strings with Piazzzolla's dramatic rhythms showcases the range of Concertmaster David Kim.