Music

Highly Strung, by re:Sound

Organised by: Resound Collective
Performed by: re:Sound

Date:

30 May 2024
Time:

7:30pm
Duration:

105 mins

Venue:

Victoria Concert Hall

Victoria Concert HallVictoria Concert Hall
Language:

English

Website:

resoundcollective.org/highlystrung/
Facebook:

www.facebook.com/resoundcollectivepage
Contact:

marcom@resoundcollective.org / 96427868

Admission:

$38 - Standard Cat 1
$28 - Standard Cat 2
15% discount - Senior/Child/Student
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Advisory:

6 years and above

Synopsis:

Yang Shuxiang leads re:Sound in Pēteris Vasks second violin concerto, "Distant Light". Known for the sheer beauty of sound in his music, Distant Light is, in Vasks' own words, 'nostalgia with a touch of tragedy', a reflection on evening light as a metaphor for the twilight years of human beings.

On the programme is also Mozart's great "Linz" Symphony, and Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara's first opus, Pelimannit ("The Fiddlers"), free fantasies on tunes that he found in an 18th-century notebook of a folk fiddler.

PROGRAMME

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Pelimannit ("The Fiddlers"), op. 1

Pēteris Vasks
Concerto for violin and strings, Tālā gaisma ("Distant Light")

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 ("Linz" Symphony)

Featuring
re:Sound
Yang Shuxiang (solo violin/leader)

Programme duration ~ 105 min (85 min with 20 min intermission)