In the coming seasons, Le Concert Olympique will be performing the two most important “successors” to Beethoven’s violin concerto: Mendelssohn (1845) and Brahms (1878). From a compositional point of view, both concertos owe a great deal of credit to that of Beethoven. But certainly just as important is the role of soloists (Ferdinand David and Joseph Joachim) in the creation and making it possible for both concertos - just as Beethoven’s - to be considered as representative of the virtuoso violin playing of their time.

In January Le Concert Olympique starts with the Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn. The soloist is the young violinist Veronika Eberle, generally considered to be the most talented German violin virtuoso of the younger generation. She has performed as a soloist with the major orchestras in the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and given recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Théâtre de la ville in Paris and the Mozarteum Salzburg.

Due to the music-historical perspective, two other “classics” are scheduled to accompany the violin concerto by Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 95 in C minor by Haydn and Symphony No. 2 in D major by Beethoven.

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