Performance - Haydn's Fire Symphony

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suite from Les Boréades

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel arr. Jonathan Posthuma
January, February and March from Das Jahr (arr. by Posthuma) (world premiere)

Max Richter
Winter from The Four Seasons Recomposed
Nina Tso-Ning Fan, violin

Intermission

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 59, Fire

Antonio Vivaldi
Winter from The Four Seasons

Approximate length 1:34

In another strand of the temporal theme woven throughout the 2024.25 season, SPCO violinist Nina Tso-Ning Fan lights a fire in January, leading the orchestra in Winter from Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Works by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and Max Richter from the 19th and 21st centuries offer additional interpretations on the passage of time, driving toward the titular centerpiece of this program — Franz Joseph Haydn's spirited Fire Symphony.

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