PROGRAM

* Heitor Villa-Lobos Alvorada na floresta tropical overture for Orchestra
* Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Romanze for Violin and Orchestra
* Josef Strauss Dorfschwalben aus Österreich Walz op. 164
* Igor Strawinski Le chant du Rossignol Symphonic Poem
* Ottorino Respighi Pini di Roma Symphonic Poem

Classical Music He called himself a “dazzling jungle bird from the Amazon”. The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos opens this luxuriant programme in which the songs of various birds become the symbol of an untouched, dreamily beautiful nature. Jun Märkl, one of the Tonkunstler Orchestra’s favourite guest conductors, continues his collaboration with the orchestra with, as it were, a kaleidoscope of bright feathers – including an English skylark, Austrian swallows and two nightingales, one Franco-Russian and one Italian: big sounds inspired by small creatures.

Akiko Suwanai violin, Jun Märkl conductor, Tonkunstler Orchestra