Violin Concerto

They are on their way to Vienna for the last two concerts, uh, in Austria at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

Manfred Honeck, Augustin Hadelich this evening, John Adams, the Barber Violin Concerto, and the Dvorak Symphony Number Nine.

Jim Cunningham had an opportunity to speak with the, the principal cellist, Anne Martindale Williams, and he spoke to her in Essen, Germany yesterday.

Anne Martindale Williams-

Jim Cunningham and speaking with principal cellist Anne Martindale Williams, who is retiring after 50 years with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

This wonderful tour that has been taking place, of course, on their way to Vienna.

Tonight, the Vienna Konzerthaus with Manfred Honeck, the music of John Adams, the Barber Violin Concerto, Augustin Hadelich, the soloist, and the Dvorak Symphony Number Nine from the New World.

And I guess our last tour report will be tomorrow with the last concert, the Vienna Konzerthaus again with Manfred Honeck, pianist Alexander Kantorow with the Brahms Piano Concerto Number One, and ending the whole shebang with the Shostakovich Symphony Number Five.

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Benjamin Barber's Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich probably wasn't very familiar to this audience.

I don't think so, but I mean, you have the, the strength of the piece and of course the strength of Augustin's playing.

And we sort of, in a way, snuck in an all-American program under the radar, if you wanna call it that, because all American music on the first half and of course the New World Symphony inspired by America on the second half.

They've been there with Manfred Honeck, with Lauren Moselle, with...

Maris Janssens famously was there, but this will be an exciting concert with Agustin Hadlick playing the Barber Concerto, music by Carlos Simon, his Four Black Dances, and the New World Symphony by Dvorak.

How is the Concertgebouw? We should explain about the Concertgebouw that it is, well, the name means what? Concert building, something like that.

It means concert hall,

It started off with, uh, Simon, four Black American dances that were exciting and bluesy and, uh, a lot of American sounds from that.

And then Augustin, of course, with the Barber Violin Concerto was, was phenomenal, just, just so clear.

And again, on this stage, we could bring dynamics to a, a new level where everything is so, so clear.

And then Dvořák New World, a war horse, but it’s, it’s always a delight to, to play.

And under Maestro Manfred Honeck, we have a great time with energetic performances of, as my dad mentioned last night, the Shostakovich Fifth.

Tonight we'll have Dvorak's New World Symphony with Augustin Hadlich playing Barber Concerto, plus the Carlos Simon Four Black American Dances, which was recently recorded by the Pittsburgh Symphony.

I think it's the premiere recording.

So we're just...

The Shostakovich seems to go over so well.

But of course, there's the Dvorak, which will be heard tomorrow evening alongside the Barber Violin Concerto.

Augustine Hadlich will be joining the Pittsburgh Symphony.

But it also looks like right after the concert tomorrow, you're moving onward.