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Beethoven’s Second
The music
The performers
- Erina Yashima conductor
- Maria Włoszczowska violin
Experience one of the sparkiest, quirkiest and most stylish showpieces ever written.
Young hearts run free. Mozart was still a teenager when he wrote his Fifth Violin Concerto, but genius is genius and the result is the sparkiest, quirkiest and most stylish showpiece ever written for a world-class violinist. Maria Włoszczowska brings it to life today – a sparkling centrepiece to a concert that begins with Ravel’s bittersweet homage to a vanished world, and ends with Beethoven in full, dazzling flight. His youthful Second Symphony is daring, dashing, and packed with musical humour – perfect, in other words, for conductor Erina Yashima and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
A friend said after the cheers, standing ovation and loud clapping that he’d follow Yashima anywhere.
The Daily Gazette
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