Josefowicz Plays Stravinsky

Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley

Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a passionate advocate of contemporary music, with several living composers having written concertos for her. In this concert she plays Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, a rhythmic, pulsing piece with Baroque overtones. Stravinsky basically invented his own format for this concerto, and the two “arias” in the middle offer some gorgeous violin-playing, including a rare (for Stravinsky) bit of reflective melancholy in Aria II. The program opens with Lili Boulanger’s Of a Spring Morning, a vibrant and delicate piece, and closes with Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, inspired by catchy tunes the composer heard on the streets Rome.

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