This is young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride's second visit to the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall. In 2007, she performed with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra conducted by Neville Marriner, where Hungarian concertgoers had the chance to admire a fantastically rich musical talent. At the age of just 20, she won one of the most respected prizes for her chosen instrument, the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in Brussels. She has appeared with a host of f...amiliar orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic, and has worked with Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit and Mikhail Pletnev. Her 1725 Stradivarius was provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. Skride has had an exclusive contract with a major record label for six years now. Her first record was a Mozart violin concerto, but her audacity is typified by a second album that featured Bartók's incredibly challenging Solo Sonata. In addition to Mozart's popular Violin Concerto, she will perform two rarely heard pieces with the string ensemble under the musical direction of János Rolla. The concert will begin with a suite adapted from 16th and 17th century lute music in Ottorino Respighi's inimitably colourful style, while the interval will be followed by an arrangement of Schubert's String Quartet in D minor by Gustav Mahler, who died a century ago. The slow movements of this work represent variations on the song Death and the Maiden, inviting the audience to bear witness to a wonderful metamorphosis. Presented by: Palace of Arts
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