Name: Leicester: The Lark Ascending
Start: 2023-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De Montfort Hall

Organization

Conductor

Chloé van Soeterstède

Instrumentalist

Leia Zhu

Violin

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leicester: The Lark Ascending

Leicester

United Kingdom

De Montfort Hall

Leicester: The Lark Ascending: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485 Schubert (+2 More)

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Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485

The Lark Ascending

Symphony No. 4 in A major, op. 90

Approved

Rising star Leia Zhu plays The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams in a programme that takes us from England to Italy.

Already captivating audiences with her musical maturity, 16-year-old violinist Leia Zhu is a star in the making. With “a poise and musical intelligence beyond her years” (The Guardian), Leia Zhu takes on one of the best-loved works in the repertoire: Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending. This sublime piece poignantly conjures up a bygone English idyll, the violin’s subtle contours tracing the songbird’s ascent into the ether.

Praised for her “gifts of balance, attention, and acute musical sensibility” (Bachtrack), Chloé van Soeterstède opens the concert with fresh and exuberant music from a 19-year-old Schubert, before whisking us off to Italy in Mendelssohn’s sunny symphony – a work once described by the composer as “the jolliest piece I have ever done”.

English

Leicester: The Lark Ascending by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, From (2023/2023), Conductor Chloé van Soeterstède, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, United Kingdom

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