Yannick Conducts Tchaikovsky
with Higdon and Sibelius
Featured Artists
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Lisa Batiashvili
Experience Sibelius’s hauntingly beautiful Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili, praised for her tonal brilliance and commanding artistry. Jennifer Higdon’s vibrant Concerto for Orchestra, a work The Philadelphia Orchestra premiered in 2002, lets every section shine, unleashing orchestral color in dazzling waves, setting the stage for Tchaikovsky’s tempestuous Francesca da Rimini, a tale of forbidden love and unrelenting passion.
A bravura showcase for the Orchestra and soloist! Violinist Lisa Batiashvili thrills audiences with her “magnificent” (The Scotsman) gifts, the perfect skill set for the Sibelius Violin Concerto, seething with tensions and dark energy.
A must for your classical music bucket list, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is electrifying, hauntingly beautiful, and a deeply enriching experience. Hear this masterwork performed by a thrilling violinist, praised for her “especially impressive … tonal range, a silver thread one minute and a robust contralto the next” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer).
Just as Sibelius’s Concerto is a showcase for the violinist, Jennifer Higdon’s scintillating Concerto for Orchestra*—commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2002—gives each section of the ensemble its moment to shine, delivering “wave after wave of intoxicating color” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). This brilliantly hued program ends in irresistible romance, as Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini immortalizes a mythical beauty, and a passion-filled love triangle that ends in damnation.
*Historic Philadelphia Orchestra world or United States premieres
Program
Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Higdon
Concerto for Orchestra
Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Approximate Duration
includes intermission
Marian Anderson Hall
