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Pacific Chamber Orchestra is performing an autumn concert of music by four renowned classical composers, accompanied by a celebrated Bay Area violinist, this weekend in downtown Livermore.
“This radiant program begins with three beloved composers you may already know — Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky — in works that dance, sing and shine with an expressive life of their own,” PCO music director Lawrence Kohl said in a press release.
“The concert concludes with Beethoven’s glorious ‘Seventh Symphony’ — a work of pulsing rhythm and soaring spirit,” Kohl added.
Joining PCO for the first three pieces will be violin virtuoso Livia Sohn, a graduate of The Juilliard School who currently teaches at Stanford University. “This is a rare opportunity to hear her perform three contrasting masterworks in a single concert … she brings dazzling virtuosity and deep artistry to every performance,” Kohl said.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Rondo in C Major, K. 373” is known for “charm and wit”, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade Melancolique” is an example of “heart-stirring lyricism with a Slavic soul”, and “Tzigane” and “Le Tombeau de Couperin” demonstrate the two sides of Maurice Ravel’s genius, “the wild … and the refined”, according to Kohl.
“The concert concludes with (Ludwig van) Beethoven’s ‘Seventh Symphony’, said to be one of his most rhythmically driven and joyful masterpieces,” the music director added.
PCO will take the stage at 3 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 19) at the Bankhead Theater on First Street in Livermore. The orchestra will also perform the concert one afternoon earlier, at 4 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 18), at Del Valle Theater on Tice Valley Boulevard in Walnut Creek – a new venue for PCO after recent years exclusively in Lafayette and Livermore.
Kohl described Del Valle as “an intimate space with excellent acoustics, easy access, comfortable seating and plenty of parking”. For tickets and more information, go to pacificchamberorchestra.org.
