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Conductor / Performers

Michael Francis conductor

Viviane Hagner violin*

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Repertoire

Janacek

Lachian Dances

Glazunov

Violin Concerto in A minor*

Enesco

Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major

Bartók

Dance Suite

Kodaly

Dances of Galanta

One of the most critically-acclaimed violinists of her generation, Viviane Hagnermakes her VSO debut performing Glazunov’s brilliant Violin Concerto. Bartók’sDance Suite, one of his most popular works, was written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest into the city of Budapest, and Kodaly’s exquisite Dances of Galanta movingly recall the composer’s childhood in what was then his northern Hungarian home town.