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Kindred Spirits Orchestra

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Kristian Alexander

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Heng-Han Hou

Violin

A Night At The Opera

Toronto

Canada

Meridian Arts Centre

George Weston

A Night At The Opera: Carmen Suite No.2 Bizet (+2 More)

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Carmen Suite No.2

Violin Concerto No.1, Sz.36

Symphony No. 6 in A Major

Saileshwaran Thirumurthy

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Bizet’s second Carmen Suite includes several well-known tunes from the eponymous opera, including the Habanera, with its characteristic snaking chromatic lines representing Carmen’s seductive wiles, and the rousing Toreador song. Heng-Han Hou then performs Bartók’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1. This work, relatively early in Bartok’s career, is more traditional than his later works, employing a two-movement rhapsodic form of a slow section followed by a fast one—similar to the Cabaletta form used in classical opera. Of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony, Robert Simpson remarks that “its themes are exceptionally beautiful…its instrumentation is the most imaginative [Bruckner] had yet achieved, and it possesses a mastery of classical form that might even have impressed Brahms.” Typically Brucknerian, the symphony features a driving “Bruckner Rhythm” consisting of two quarter notes followed by a triplet, and an extensive use of harmonic ambiguity to quickly slide between different key areas.

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A Night At The Opera by Bizet, Bartók, Bruckner, From (2025/2025), Conductor Kristian Alexander, Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada

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