Friday, September 18
Festive Opening
Varaždin Chamber Orchestra
Latica Honda Rosenberg, solo violin and artistic leadership
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg concero no.3 in G major, BWV 1048
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons, concertos for violin and strings op. 8
Spring, concerto no. 1 in E major, RV 269
Allegro
Largo e pianissimo sempre
Allegro pastorale
Summer, concerto no. 2 in G minor, RV 315
Allegro non molto
Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
Presto
Autumn, concerto no. 3 in F major, RV 293
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Winter, concerto no. 4 in F minor, RV 297
Allegro non molto
Largo
Allegro
Georg Philipp Telemann
Ouverture-Suite La Bizzare for strings and basso continuo in G major, TWV 55:G2
Ouverture
Courante
Gavotte en rondeau
Branle
Sarabande
Fantaisie
Menuet I i II
Rossignol
About performer:
Varaždin Chamber Orchestra continues chamber and orchestra music tradition in Varaždin, especially strong in 50’s and 60’s years of past century. Their central activity is a cycle of five concerts in a season performed in the concert hall of the CNT in Varaždin. The orchestra regularly performs at Varaždin Baroque Evenings and holds concerts all over Croatia – in Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Opatija, Osijek, Karlovac, Čakovec, as well as abroad – in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The orchestra has been given the award of Varaždin Baroque Evenings Ivan Lukačić, the award of Croatian Society of Music Artists Milka Trnina, as well as the Plaque of the City of Varaždin. For their concert held on Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2007, they won Orlando award and for the concert held on Varaždin Baroque Evenings Jurica Murai award for the best interpretation.
Latica Honda-Rosenberg is among the foremost representatives of the generation of violinists that is now established in concert life. Winning the silver medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1998 paved the way for an international career for her. The music magazine The Strad wrote at the time: ”Her assurance and strength of will immediately brought Heifetz to mind. Her musical idiom and her playing are eloquent, expressive, sensitive and variegated, or in short: wonderful, uplifting.”
Since 2000 Latica Honda-Rosenberg has been recording exclusively for the Oehms Classics label. Three recordings with works by Bloch, Prokofief (chamber music), Shostakovitsch and Tchaikovsky (solo concertos) are already available. The recordings of chamber music by Ernest Bloch were chosen by The Strad’as its CD of the Month.
Apart from her worldwide activities on the concert platform, since 2003 Latica Honda-Rosenberg has held a professorship for violin at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. She also gives master classes in Germany, Italy (Gustav Mahler Academy), France, Croatia, Portugal and in Israel (Keshet Eilon Summer Course). Since April 2009 she received a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts.