Handel Variations

Handel Variations
06 May 2016 - 07 May 2016
7:30pm
Victoria Concert Hall

Esteemed maestro Neeme Järvi returns to conduct Rubbra’s orchestration of the monumental Handel Variations by Brahms, a set of 25 variations based on a theme from Handel’s Harpsichord Suite No. 1 and hailed as "perhaps the finest set of piano variations since Beethoven”. He is joined by Lu Wei in the meltingly beautiful Violin Concerto by Russian composer Julius Conus, a work championed by the legendary Jascha Heifetz.

 

Featuring:

  1. Neeme Järvi, conductor
  2. Lu Wei, violin

 

Programme:

  1. HAYDN
    Symphony No. 86 in D major
     
  2. CONUS
    Violin Concerto in E minor
     
  3. BRAHMS orch. RUBBRA
    Variations on a Theme by Handel