Shao-Chia Lü, conductor
Distinguished Chinese conductor, former Music Director of the Taiwan Philharmonic and Hannover State Opera
Highlight
Maestro Shao-Chia Lü, a longtime GSO collaborator, brings the finest combination of symphonic works by two Austro-German masters. Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture is fresh, fun and joyful, his Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn infuse romantic elements and techniques within a classical mold. Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 has long been praised as an immortal work, popular and beloved for two centuries.
Program
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op.56a
1.Andante
2.Variation I: Poco più animato
3.Variation II: Più vivace
4.Variation III: Con moto
5.Variation IV. Andante con moto
6.Variation V: Vivace
7.Variation VI: Vivace
8.Variation VII: Grazioso
9.Variation VIII: Presto non troppo
10.Finale: Andante
—— Intermission ——
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in c minor, Op.67
1.Allegro con brio
2.Andante con moto
3.Allegro
4.Allegro
Pre-Concert Talk
Pre-Concert Talk 9:
Shao-Chia Lü, lecturer
19:15 Sat. 18 Jun 2016
Xinghai Concert Hall Lobby
Mandarin
