PROGRAMME:
- Vivaldi The Four Seasons
- Edgar Meyer Overture for Violin & Orchestra
- Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
OVERVIEW
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields begins 2018 with a programme full of vitality.
Music Director Joshua Bell, one of today’s most celebrated violinists, will star as soloist in Vivaldi’s ever popular Four Seasons and offer up the UK premiere of a vibrant new work for violin and orchestra written by his good friend and collaborator Edgar Meyer, as well as directing Beethoven’s exuberant Symphony No. 2 – a work which Hector Berlioz claimed “is smiling throughout”.
WATCH
Watch a sneak peek of our rehearsals with Joshua Bell at Cadogan Hall last week, and hear reactions from audience members following our concert performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons:
LISTEN
Listen to Edgar Meyer and Joshua Bell talking about the new Overture for Violin and Orchestra in our latest podcast: