Join us on Monday 9th May for the second concert of the InClassica International Music Festival. This concert features the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conducted by the renowned cellist and conductor, Dmitry Yablonsky, and presents works by Bizet, Suppé, Offenbach, Rossini and Strauss. The performance begins with the Overture to Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, a well-known and rousing work popular for its now-famous melodies and energetic orchestration. Franz von Suppé’s pastoral Poet and Peasant Overture follows, a rich and evocative work featuring a haunting cello solo, before the first half is concluded by a performance of Jacques Offenbach’s now famous Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld, his comic opera in two parts first premiered in 1858. The work features, amongst others, the hugely popular motif now synonymous with the can- can cabaret dance. Following a short intermission, the orchestra returns with the inspiring and ever-popular Overture to Gioachino Rossini’s opera William Tell, before presenting a number of works by Richard Strauss, beginning with his Wiener Blut (“Viennese Blood”), Op. 354, a work first premiered in 1873 to celebrate the marriage of Archduchess Gisela Louise Maria and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. The Champagner-Polka, Op. 211 follows, a piece written for the composer’s tour of Russia that same year, before continuing with the Fredrica Polca, Op. 239. Next, the orchestra presents the composer’s Trish-Tratch Polka, Op. 214, before following with the Overture to Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (“The Flittermouse’’ or “The Bat”) operetta, a work first premiered in 1874 and featuring one of classical music’s most famous waltzes. The popular Pizzicato Polka follows, with the work’s extensive use of pizzicato string technique (created by plucking the strings) creating a texture unique to this piece, before the Auf der Jagd Polka, Op.211. Next, the orchestra presents the Unter Donner und Blitz Polka, a work now seen as one of the most popular of Strauss’ pieces, before the evening is concluded by one of the composer’s most enduring works, the much-loved Radetzky March. This concert is proudly presented by SAMIT Event Group.
