L’Orchestre National de France soloists stage ‘Strings Party’ concert
HCM City (VNA) - Soloists from L’Orchestre
National de France (The National Orchestra of France) will give a concert at
the HCM City Conservatory of Music on the night of May 2.
The “Strings Party” concert will feature violinists Nguyen Huu Khoi Nam and
Nguyen Huu Nguyen, who joined the orchestra in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
The other musicians will include violinist Kyungwon Baik, violists Emmanuel
Blanc and Vincent Filatreau, and cellists Pierre Vavasseur and Jerome Lefranc.
Vietnamese violinist Le Minh Hien and violist Pham Vu
Thien Bao, and the string orchestra of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra
and Opera (HBSO) will take part in the concert.
The artists will perform works for strings by Mendelssohn, Brahms and
Tchaikovsky, three of the greatest creative artists of the mid-19th century.
The concert will open with String Symphony Number 4, one of 12
string symphonies that Mendelssohn wrote between 1821 and 1823, when he was
between 12 and 14 years old.
It will be followed by Brahms’s String Quartet Number 2, written in
1873. The four-movement quartet has a final movement modeled on a Hungarian
folk dance.
The second part of the night will be String Sextet: Souvenir de
Florence, composed by Tchaikovsky in 1890. It was titled Souvenir
de Florence (Memories of Florence) because the composer wrote one of
its melodies during his visit to Florence, Italy. The composition has
traditional four movements, and is for two violins, two violas and two cellos.
It premiered in 1892, a year before the composer died at the age of 53.-VNA