Hilaris Chamber Orchestra
Already the age of eleven Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy “bit” with appetite into orchestra music. After the example of his famous forerunners he wrote a dozen of brilliant symphonies for strings; the thirteenth remained only a one-part torso. Mendelssohn was a prodigy; before him Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lined up in this prestigious category. One of the most universal composers in music history stepped in every existing genre – including the Sinfonia Concertante. This one, dedicated to a duo of string instruments, uses among others cleverly the strategy of scordatura – tuning of the instrument. The expressive string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich are winding through the entire active career of this composer. The well-known symphonic composer managed to encode an unbelievable sound potential in the four parts. Also because of this many of his string quartets stood in the centre of interest of the arrangers and they exist also in the version for string orchestra. Shostakovich composed the second opus of this kind after already having written eight expressive symphonies.
Hilaris Chamber Orchestra
Alan Vizváry artistic leader / violin
Ľudovít Kara viola
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy String Symphony No. 13 in C minor Sinfoniesatz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra in E flat major, K. 364
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 (orchestra version)
Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic
10th April 2019 at 6 pm
