ORT: Yashima-Suh Concert

At 9:00 pm on Wednesday, April 15 at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, the Orchestra of Tuscany (ORT) concert conducted by Erina Yashima with violinist Elly Suh offers a program that relates Ligeti, Dvořák and Bizet, showcasing 3 different ways of looking at the European musical tradition.

Opening the evening is György Ligeti’s Concert Românesc, an early work in which the nod to folklore is in sync with a personal writing, scribed with tensions and overlappings that hint at future developments in the composer’s language. 
It continues with the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, entrusted to Elly Suh, where the relationship with the folk tradition is translated into a natural musical language, animated by momentum, introspection and dance rhythms.

The 2ⁿᵈ part of the program is Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C Major, as if resulting from an exercise, with the work revealing a surprising maturity, between formal clarity, cantability and lightness.

On the podium stands Erina Yashima, a conductor known for both her symphonic repertoire and musical theater, while Elly Suh tackles the solo part with an approach that combines technical robustness and attention to the expressive dimension of the music. 
A concert juxtaposing 3 works, differing in age and character but united by a common relationship with memory, form and the alteration of tradition.