Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Photo by Nick Rutter)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Pinchas Zukerman, continues The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County’s 2017-18 Knight Masterworks Season – the Meidar and Alfi Family Foundation Classical Music Series.
Zukerman and the orchestra perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall in an evening of Beethoven and Mozart and the first of two appearances this season by Zukerman, who returns in recital with Itzhak Perlman in February 2018.
Pinchas Zukerman (Photo Fred Cattroll)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recently celebrated 70 years at the forefront of music-making in the United Kingdom. With a wider reach than any other large UK ensemble, the RPO has truly become Britain’s national orchestra. Its home base since 2004 at London’s Cadogan Hall serves as a springboard for 14 residencies across the country, often in areas where access to live orchestral music is very limited.
Zukerman is in his ninth season as the Principal Guest Conductor of RPO. Zukerman is equally respected as violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue and chamber musician.
The evening’s program will feature Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, often referred to as The Turkish. Written in 1775, it premiered during the holiday season that year in Salzburg and ranks as one of the finest violin concertos of the eighteenth century. Also on the program, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, which he deemed his “most excellent” and personally conducted its premiere at a benefit for Austrian and Bavarian soldiers wounded at the battle of Hanau in the Napoleonic Wars.
Der Freischütz Overture by Carl Maria von Weber was probably the most successful in establishing a German romantic opera style and immediately became popular throughout Europe following its premiere in Berlin in 1821. Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20 is a piece for string orchestra in three movements and believed to be a reworking of a suite he had written prior to firmly setting his sights on a career as a composer.
Tickets range from $50-$150 and can be purchased by phone at (305) 949-6722, online at arshtcenter.org or in person at the Adrienne Arsht Center Box Office, located at 1300 Biscayne Blvd.
A free pre-concert lecture will be held in the Arsht Center’s Peacock Foundation Education Center (inside the Knight Concert Hall) at 7 p.m. prior to the concert.
Visit www.arshtcenter.org for up-to-date information for details and schedules.
