Auckland Philharmonia: Mendelssohn's Violin

Child Policy: This performance is not suitable for children under six years old. Children aged 16 and under must be accompanied by a caregiver who attends the event with the child. Conductor --- Giordano Bellincampi Violin --- Benjamin Beilman Schubert --- Overture in the Italian Style in D Mendelssohn --- Violin Concerto Beethoven --- Symphony No.2 'A violin concerto in E minor keeps running through my head,' Mendelssohn wrote to a friend, 'and the opening gives me no peace.' His feverish creativity led to one of the world's favourite violin concertos, played for us by one of the world's most exciting violinists. Schubert never visited Italy, although you'd never know it from his cheerful homage to Italian music. More cheer in Beethoven's lithe Second Symphony, with its generous slow movement and breathless finale.