Hong Kong Cultural Centre｜Musicus Fest 2024 - Festival Finale: Trey Lee and Sinfonia Varsovia

Description

Double Dvořák: gripping and transcendent

A grand finale concert featuring cellist and Musicus Society Artistic Director Trey Lee with Sinfonia Varsovia, all the way from Poland, brings Musicus Fest 2024 to a close. The orchestra’s past accolades include the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin and Diapason d’Or, and they count Krzysztof Penderecki among its former music directors. In 2024, Sinfonia Varsovia is celebrating 40 years since being founded in 1984 especially to perform with the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who was also their first guest conductor.

“Working with no other orchestra gave me as much satisfaction as my work, as soloist and conductor, with Sinfonia Varsovia” – Yehudi Menuhin

Under the baton of the award-winning German conductor Alexander Liebreich, who is here reunited with Trey Lee, the orchestra will perform works by the Czech master Antonín Dvořák and Polish composer Witold Lutosławski.

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor was the composer’s favorite of his own concertos and is often regarded as his unofficial tenth symphony. The second work will be Lutosławski’s folk-inflected Little Suite, dating from 1951 and one of the most frequently performed Polish works of its day. Closing the concert will be Dvořák’s darkly majestic Symphony No. 7, a fitting performance in a year that marks the 120th anniversary of the composer’s death.

This special performance brings together two composers renowned for their reworking of Central European folk melodies, and is not to be missed.

Program

Dvořák

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Lutosławski

Mala suita (Little Suite)

Dvořák

Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70