The long forgotten Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D minor will be resurrected once again at the Philharmonic Hall.

LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Soloist and conductor MICHAEL GUTTMAN (violin, Belgium)

Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 19:00
Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall

Michael Guttman playes violin and conducts Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Paganini and other composers works Wednesday 7th November.

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra presents violinist and conductor from Belgium Michael Guttman
. He has earned critical acclaim fromNew York Times for his “incredible wealth of tone colours and his sound of melting beauty“, and was described by Jerusalem Post as the “Chagall of violinists“. At age ten, the child prodigy Michael became the youngest student ever to be admitted into the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, later continued his education at the Juilliard School in New York. He has performed in halls such as London’s Barbican Centre, New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, Paris’ Salle Pleyel, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Tokyo’s Bunko Kaikan, collaborated with renowned performers, composers and orchestras, patronised young musicians.

The concert programme features works by romanticists Mendelssohn and Paganini, composers active at the turn of the 19th–20th century, as well as music by the illustrious French songwriter and singer Ch. Aznavour
. Majority of arrangements programmed on tonight’s concert were made by Guttman.

Patron of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra VIRGINIJUS STRIOGA

Programme:

FELIX MENDELSSOHN – Sinfonia for strings No. 2 in D major;

FELIX MENDELSSOHN – Concerto for violin and string orchestra in D minor

EUGÈNE YSAŸE – Rêve d’Enfant, Op. 14 (arranged by M. Guttman)

SERGEI RACHMANINOV – Vocalise for violin and orchestra (arranged by M. Guttman)

MANUEL MARIA PONCE – Estrellita for violin and orchestra (arranged by M. Guttman)

NICCOLÒ PAGANINI – Cantabile in D major, Op

. 17

FELIX MENDELSSOHN – Capriccio in E minor, Op. 81 (string orchestra version by M. Guttman)