May 3, 2025 - 7:30PM
FirstOntario Concert Hall

James Ehnes Plays Tchaikovsky

Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

 

The Performance

Don’t miss the HPO’s rousing season closer! Hear the consummate artistry of eminent Canadian violinist James Ehnes in Tchaikovsky’s rhapsodic Violin Concerto. Then, experience the expansive sonic dramas of Mahler’s First Symphony, as the HPO takes you from a depiction of nature’s awakening in spring, through rustic dances and animals’ ironic funeral procession for a hunter, to a final confrontation with “all the world’s sorrow” that ends in blazing glory.

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Enjoy the scintillating textures and diverse instrumental sounds of three lively concertos by Handel and J.S. Bach, featuring notable Canadian violinist and early music specialist Aisslinn Nosky with musicians of the HPO. She also leads the Orchestra in Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94— aptly nicknamed for its many musical twists and turns, it’s as much a sensation today as when the HPO first performed the piece in 1884!

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Concert Program

  • Massimo Guida (24-25 Composer Fellow), New Work*
  • Tchaikovsky, Violin concerto
  • Mahler, Symphony No.1

* World premiere