An artist who has defined and redefined classical music in our time, Midori presents a program inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca and his poem, Casida of the Lament. From Poulenc's Sonata, dedicated to Lorca, and Ravel's setting of the Hebrew prayer for the dead to transcriptions capturing the uplift of spirituals, this program exploits the violin's expressive capacities. "Midori's interpretation, in a word, was simply magical...No encore was needed; the audience was already speechless" (Houston Chronicle). She is accompanied by frequent collaborator and award-winning pianist Ozgur Aydin.
Midori celebrated her 40th-anniversary last season with Warner Classics' release of the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. She began the current season with a summer appearance at the Santander International Festival, followed by fall tours of Europe and North America with Festival Strings Lucerne performing Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor and Beethoven's Romance No. 2, the latter of which she recorded with the Swiss chamber orchestra for an album of Beethoven released on Warner Classics in 2020. Other 2023-24 season highlights include performing Bernstein's Serenade with the National Repertory Orchestra under Michael Stern, WDR Symphony in Germany under Constantinos Carydis, and Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. She plays Dvorak's Violin Concerto in A Minor with the Iris Collective and Orchestra Lumos, also under Stern's baton, and with the Prague Philharmonia under Eugene Tzigane; she also performs a recital at the Long Center in Austin, Texas.
Program
BRAHMS: Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 76
POULENC: Sonata for Violin and Piano
RAVEL: Kaddish (arr. Garban); Tzigane
CHE BUFORD: Resonances in Spirit (West Coast Premiere)
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