Midori Plays Shostakovich

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Tickets are currently on sale as part of a subscription package only. Eckart Preu, Music Director Midori, violin PROGRAM Rachmaninoff | The Isle of the Dead Lutoslawski | Concerto for orchestra Shostakovich | Violin concerto No. 1 Violin superstar Midori brings her “simply magical” (Houston Chronicle) talent to appear with the PSO for the first time. Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11, Midori has captured audiences with her intensity and technical prowess. Here she brings her extraordinary talent to perform Shostakovich’s herculean Violin Concerto No. 1, emotionally sweeping and symphonic in its scope and composition. Showcasing the PSO at its most vibrant and virtuosic is Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra. Blending folk color with dazzling orchestral writing, keen-eared listeners might notice an homage to Shostakovich’s violin concerto hidden within the concerto—a sympathetic allusion to the artistic restrictions they both composed under.

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