Liviu Prunaru, violin – Eivind Aadland, cond. – l’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne – Live – May 22, 2012 – RTS Espace 2 –
Over to Lausanne this week for a concert by the celebrated Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, led this week by one of Norway’s most prominent conductors, Eivin Aadland and featuring Liviu Prunau violn in a program of music by Grieg, Schumann and Mendelssohn.
Starting with the opus 53 Melodies for Orchestra by Grieg – followed by the Schumann violin concerto with Liviu Prunau as soloist along with Dinicu’s Hora Staccato as an encore.
Things settle back down and the concert concludes with Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony. It was all broadcast live from the Salle Metropole in Lausanne on May 22, 2012.
Liviu Prunaru studied with Alberto Lysy at the Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland and with Dorothy DeLay in New York. He was appointed principal violinist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in September 2006. Between 2010 and 2012 he was also Artistic Director of the Menuhin Music Academy.
In 1993, he won the Prix International Eugène Ysaÿe, the Audience Prize and second prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. Winning the Juilliard Mendelssohn Competition in 1999 led to his New York solo debut at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Symphony. Prunaru has since given solo performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has given recitals throughout the world.
Liviu Prunaru made his first solo appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in May 2008 in a performance of Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3. He returned as a soloist in the Dvořák Violin Concerto in December 2012 and in Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires in June 2014.
Eivind Aadland is one of Norway’s leading conductors, who brings both historical rigour and fresh insight to his interpretations of Classical and Romantic repertoire. He is well known to audiences across Australia and East Asia, having toured the region extensively, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2013. In 2020 he took up his new position as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, based in Hobart, a city that is quickly becoming a leading cultural destination. Despite the many obstacles presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, he was able to keep this relationship alive with several visits during 2021, and more planned for 2022.
Pull up a seat and enjoy the concert.
(A couple of transmission glitches appear in a couple places, but not bad enough to force you to toss your iPad out the window.)
