Credit: OCL
The Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg (OCL) has announced that its season opening concert will take place on Sunday 4 October 2020 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg at 19:00.
The OCL will be playing again after a few months of silence due to the coronavirus crisis. For its season opening concert, the orchestra will play two pieces by the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, under the baton of the young conductor Joseph Bastian and with violinist Tedi Papavrami.
Hailing from Tirana, where he spent his childhood, Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami recalled that "music was always there and it fascinated me". First heard by the western European public at the age of 11, the violin prodigy went on to join Pierre Amoyal's class at the Paris Conservatoire, launching an exceptional career.
Under the direction of the Swiss French conductor Joseph Bastian, Tedi Papavrami will join the OCL in Beethoven's only Violin Concerto, first performed in 1806 at the Theater an der Wien. Beethoven makes extreme demands of his solo player: changes of volume, dramatic explosions, high notes and rapid ascents, as well as harmonic oddities, all of which revolutionised violin playing as much as our way of hearing. A few years earlier, in 1782, Mozart, then 26 years old, was commissioned by Sigmund Haffner junior, a recently ennobled businessman and philanthropist, to write a serenade. This was reworked to transform it into a magisterial symphony.
Also on the agenda is a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 35 "Haffner".
Tickets cost €30 (€15 for under-27s) or €1.50 with a Kulturpass; children under 12 go free. Reservations should be made online at www.luxembourg-ticket.lu or via tel.: 470-8951. For further information, visit www.ocl.lu.
