Elina Vähälä, the amazing umlaut-ed Finnish violinist, will be here this weekend for Britten’s Violin Concerto. If you don’t remember her, she played a breathtaking Vivaldi Four Seasons a couple years back, and I think that the Britten is tailor made for her. Here’s a preview of her playing from this year’s Nobel Peace Prize concert:
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This is the concert I have been waiting for all season. It is so nice to hear a great work that does not get played very often. I hope that people will turn out for it.
Voice from the Couch and I will be there! The Beethoven Festival was exhilarating. It’s late so we’ll just say well done!!! And special kudos to Charles, himself, tonight in Principal Violist chair. Loud resounding applause! And up on our feet, too!!
Quite something, wasn’t it? Arnaldo looked SO happy to be done with those final notes of the Emperor! And he had the energy for his encore, too. Nice!
I just wish that someone could have captured an image of Arnaldo playing that encore with Carlos at the end of the piano in profile. From up there in the lower mez it was so endearing.
I’ll be driving down from Seattle to hear all of you on Monday evening. What an intriguing program with a terrific soloist. Looking forward!