Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Violin Highlights

About the Event

Chief conductor Jun Märkl leads the Residentie Orkest in movements from Tchaikovsky's moving ballet Swan Lake. South Korean star violinist Bomsori Kim will solo in romantic showpieces for violin by Saint‐Saëns and Wieniawski, treasured compositions that also appear on Kim's debut album Violin on Stage.

Masterpieces by Tchaikovsky and Saint‐Saëns
That German‐Japanese conductor Jun Märkl is an enthusiastic advocate of Saint‐Saëns' elegant compositions is no secret. With several orchestras he has recorded relatively unknown gems by this French composer, including with the Residentie Orkest. Now he combines Saint‐Saëns' world‐famous Danse macabre (with the iconic violin solo) and Marche Héroïque with perhaps the most beautiful ballet music ever written: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Virtuoso violin music
Award‐winning violinist Bomsori Kim also chooses Saint‐Saëns. On her first solo album Violin on Stage with Deutsche Grammophon, she already impressed with Introduction et rondo capriccioso, a challenging showpiece Saint‐Saëns wrote especially for the legendary violinist Pablo de Sarasate. As on that CD, tonight Kim also plays Wieniawski's voluminous Fantaisie brillante, an alternately virtuosic and lyrical piece with a dizzying finale, based on familiar themes from Gounoud's Faust.