23 May 2009 at 7.30pm
Ulf Hoelscher (Violin)
Conductor: Brian Wright
Bernstein - West Side Story & Symphonic Dances Barber -
Violin Concerto Saint-Saens -
Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Fauré -
Pavane Ravel -
Daphnis & Chloe Suite No.2 Here’s a blockbuster of a programme. The great German
violinist Ulf Hoelscher plays Samuel Barber’s haunting Violin Concerto
and some superbly virtuosic Saint-Saëns. There’s also passionate panache
with Bernstein’s West Side Story Dances, elegant charm with Fauré’s
Pavane, and sumptuous splendour with Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe.
Maidstone Leisure Centre, Mote Park, Maidstone.
For ticket details click here or phone 0845 1552277
Ulf Hoelscher is a violinist born in Germany in 1943. Soloist with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Symphoniker, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded numerous concerts by Beethoven, Berg, Bruch, Schumann, Spohr, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovski. He teaches violin at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and the Accademia di Cervo[1], Italy. He plays an 18th century Guarnieri violin.