Yury and Firebird in Oxford this Sunday

SJE Arts hosts the London Firebird Orchestra with soloist Yury Revich performing the celebrated Bruch Violin Concerto on Sunday 9 March.

One of the best-loved violin concertos of all time, Bruch’s first violin concerto dates from 1866. Classic FM listeners voted it No.1 in the UK in 1996, and in its profile of Bruch, it described the violin concerto as ‘one of the best works of the Romantic period’.

Did you know?

Bruch also composed two more violin concertos, but neither has gained as much fame as his first. This was a source of great frustration for Bruch who wrote: ‘On the corner of the Via Toledo they stand there, ready to break out with my first violin concerto as soon as I allow myself to be seen. (They can all go to the devil! As if I had not written other equally good concertos!).

Either side of the violin concerto will be two fantastic orchestral pieces: Mozart’s Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 – The Magic Flute, and probably Beethoven’s most famous symphony, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67.

SJE Arts with Yury Revich

Sunday 9 March, 6pm
SJE Arts, St John the Evangelist, Oxford OX4 1EH

Mozart Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
Bruch Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Beethoven Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

London Firebird Orchestra
Yury Revich violin
Michael Thrift conductor

This concert is generously sponsored by the Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation.

In London on Tuesday 29 April Yury will perform a virtuosic programme of violin delights with Vivaldi’s timeless classic The Four Seasons paired with Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.