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Conductor

Karen Kamensek

Instrumentalist

Nicola Benedetti

Violin

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Nicola Benedetti Performs Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto

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Sydney Opera House

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Nicola Benedetti Performs Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Adams (+2 More)

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Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Violin Concerto in D Major

The Firebird Suite (1919)

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In a Sydney first, Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti brings her brilliant technique and grace to the music of Wynton Marsalis, one of America’s most captivating composers.
A jazz legend, Marsalis has created a violin concerto that brings together the genius of performer and composer. Jazz, blues and fiddle music – feel the fresh, foot-stomping spirit of America come alive at the Sydney Opera House.

As a teenager, Marsalis was captivated by Stravinsky’s genre-busting, incandescent writing. Inspired by folk stories, the dreamlike The Firebird is one of the Russian composer’s most famous creations, still seductive and thrilling more than a century after its premiere. From near silence, darkness and mystery transform into a soaring melody within its opening minutes. The dark magic of an evil sorcerer hangs over each note, until he is at last vanquished as the work’s finale blazes like a sunrise of joy.

PROGRAM
ADAMS Short Ride in a Fast Machine
MARSALIS Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete)

ARTISTS
KAREN KAMENSEK conductor
NICOLA BENEDETTI violin


Series Presenting Partner

English

Nicola Benedetti Performs Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto by Adams, Marsalis, Stravinsky, From (2023/2023), Conductor Karen Kamensek, Sydney Opera House, Sydney City, Australia

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