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Munich Symphony Orchestra: Schubert / Mendelssohn Bartholdy and morefeaturing Jacques Forestier on violin, conducted by Swann Van Rechem

The violinist, wearing a dark blue suit, is sitting down, holding his violin, and looking at the camera.
Copyright: Ryan Parker

Smetana’s tone-painting Vltava and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony are two masterpieces that go straight to the heart. Also on the evening’s programme is one of the most significant instrumental concertos of the Romantic period: Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

Smetana’s tone-painting Vltava and Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony are two masterpieces that go straight to the heart. Also on the evening’s programme is one of the most significant instrumental concertos of the Romantic period: Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

The soloist is Jacques Forestier, whose playing has been hailed on The Violin Channel platform as that of “a real poet with emotional maturity far beyond his young years”.

Programme

  • Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
  • Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau) – symphonic poem from Má vlast (My Fatherland)
  • Schubert: Symphony No 7 in B minor, D 759, Unfinished Symphony

With

  • Jacques Forestier, violin
  • Swann Van Rechem, conductor
  • Munich Symphony Orchestra