Beethoven Fest in Bonn! The First of Many To Come

Tonight at 7:00 on The Evening Concert it’s the first of the “Beethoven-fest in Bonn” programs from Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts series.  Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Beethoven’s 1st and 7th Symphonies in performance in the Beethoven Hall, Bonn.  Also on the program, Unsuk Chin’s “Violin Concerto” featuring Viviane Hagner.

Monday July 1: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (Program #12-09)
“Beethoven Fest in Bonn #1”
Philharmonia Orchestra (London); Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.; *Viviane Hagner, violin
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21
*Unsuk CHIN (b. 1961): Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2011)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op.92
[DWF fill: BRAHMS: Nanie for chorus and orchestra, after text by Friedrich Schiller, Op.82 City of Birmingham S.O.; Andris Nelsons]