L’Orchestre National de France soloists stage ‘Strings Party’ concert
Soloists from L’Orchestre National de France (The National Orchestra of France) will give a concert at the HCM City Conservatory of Music on the night of May 2.
Soloists Nguyen Huu Khoi Nam, Nguyen Huu Nguyen, Kyungwon Baik, Emmanuel Blanc (top left to right), Vincent Filatreau, Pierre Vavasseur Jerome Lefranc, and Lê Minh Hiền (bottom left to right) will perform at the HCM City Conservatory of Music tonight. (Source: courtesy of HBSO)
HCM City (VNA) - Soloists from L’OrchestreNational de France (The National Orchestra of France) will give a concert atthe HCM City Conservatory of Music on the night of May 2.
The “Strings Party” concert will feature violinists Nguyen Huu Khoi Nam andNguyen Huu Nguyen, who joined the orchestra in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
🔜 The other musicians will include violinist Kyungwon Baik, violists EmmanuelBlanc and Vincent Filatreau, and cellists Pierre Vavasseur and Jerome Lefranc.
Vietnamese violinist Le Minh Hien and violist Pham VuThien Bao, and the string orchestra of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestraand Opera (HBSO) will take part in the concert.
The artists will perform works for strings by Mendelssohn, Brahms andTchaikovsky, three of the greatest creative artists of the mid-19th century.
The concert will open with String Symphony Number 4, one of 12string symphonies that Mendelssohn wrote between 1821 and 1823, when he wasbetween 12 and 14 years old.
It will be followed by Brahms’s String Quartet Number 2, written in1873. The four-movement quartet has a final movement modeled on a Hungarianfolk dance.
The second part of the night will be String Sextet: Souvenir deFlorence, composed by Tchaikovsky in 1890. It was titled Souvenirde Florence (Memories of Florence) because the composer wrote one ofits melodies during his visit to Florence, Italy. The composition hastraditional four movements, and is for two violins, two violas and two cellos.
𝄹 It premiered in 1892, a year before the composer died at the age of 53.-VNA
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Soloists Nguyen Huu Khoi Nam, Nguyen Huu Nguyen, Kyungwon Baik, Emmanuel Blanc (top left to right), Vincent Filatreau, Pierre Vavasseur Jerome Lefranc, and Lê Minh Hiền (bottom left to right) will perform at the HCM City Conservatory of Music tonight. (Source: courtesy of HBSO)
