Fischer’s Beethoven
Thierry Fischer: Conductor
Baiba Skride: Violin
Northern Sinfonia
BARTÓK
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
MARTIN
Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.8 in F
Paradoxes and surprises, new sensations and curious colourings – all abound in the three works heard here. The delicate shadings of Beethoven’s short Eighth Symphony posed a far bigger challenge to the composer than the furious rhythms of the Seventh (15th November).
Bartók’s mysteriously scored creation has the feeling of music from another world – at once utterly foreign and beguilingly beautiful. In between come the soaring, luminous lines of Frank Martin’s Violin Concerto, played by the irrepressible Baiba Skride.
Part of Classical Season 2012/13
Music Director Thomas Zehetmair is to conduct the symphonies of Brahms and Schumann with Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of Sage Gateshead. Known for stylistic excellence, meticulous precision and intimate understanding Zehetmair and Northern Sinfonia’s interpretation of these greats will be...