San Francisco Symphony - Brahms Violin Concerto
Young violin virtuoso Ray Chen performs Brahms' Violin Concerto
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But Mr. Chen, at 26 an award-winning musician, is using new media not only to attract new fans for himself but also to build a younger audience for classical music.
New York Times
Young violin virtuoso Ray Chen performs Brahms' Violin Concerto
Young violin virtuoso Ray Chen performs Brahms' Violin Concerto
Ray Chen represents the future of classical music. The virtuosic violinist not only plays with such singular vision and technique that audiences flock to his concerts, but the young performer has amassed an unprecedented online following, boosting a media presence that has granted him international tenure playing with the world's leading orchestras.
The prodigiously talented Chen will join the San Francisco Symphony for an evening of Andrew Norman, Brahms and Prokofiev, under the direction of Slovak guest conductor Juraj Valcuha. A piece that is firmly in every world class soloist's repertoire, Brahms' Violin Concerto contains a silken Adagio with movements so exquisite its said to have brought its first audiences to tears.
Programme
Andrew Norman - Unstuck
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3