Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto” and “7th Symphony” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on FM 90.9 it’s another concert from “Beethoven-fest in Bonn”. Violinist-conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto” and “7th Symphony”. Also on the program Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon after a poem by Byron”.  

Monday August 21: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2016-14)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra at Beethoven-fest, Bonn
Location: Beethoven Hall, Bonn (1,2,3,5)  Beethoven House, Bonn (4)
Performed by: Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Conductors: Pekka Kuusisto (1); Michael Wendeberg (3); Matthew Truscott (5)
Soloists: Pekka Kuusisto, violin (1,2); Sunnyi Melles, reciter; (3)

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello (4); Alexander Lonquich, piano (4)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61 (38:43)
ANON.: Vi sålde våra hemman" (We Sold Our Homesteads) (04:13)
SCHÖNBERG: Ode to Napoleon after a poem by Lord Byron, op. 41 (16:47)
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 4 in C Major, op.102, No. 1: 2nd movement (02:54)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 (41:23)