Emerald City Music brings the New York Classical Players to the Washington Center. Indulge in the rich musical tapestry of the Romantic-era chamber orchestra with the New York Classical Players alongside 2017 Cliburn Piano Competition gold medalist Yekwon Sunwoo.
For the first time, Emerald City Music presents a chamber orchestra on stage! The evening features Tchaikovsky's capricious and whimsical Pezzo Capriccioso; a work written over a single week as the composer was preoccupied with the illness of his close friend. Cliburn gold-medal pianist Yekwon Sunwoo joins the orchestra for Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2. The young 19-year-old Chopin wrote this lyrical work – with its romantic and soaring melodic passages – as an homage to his Warsaw School muse, Polish soprano Konstancja Gładkowska. Closing the evening is the soul-stirring cello melodies in Tchaikovsky’s timeless Serenade, a piece the composer wrote: "by the impulse of an intimate conviction... a piece that comes from the bottom of my heart."
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Program:
David LUDWIG: Moto perpetuo, for Solo Violin (2016)
Frédéric CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 (1829)
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso in B minor, Op. 62 (1887)
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 (1880)
The Artists:
New York Classical Players, Dongmin Kim, conductor, with: Yekwon Sunwoo, piano; Kate Ardndt, violin; Samuel DeCaprio, cello
Event Date
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Event time
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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