Tam Plays Mendelssohn

The last concert in the Victoria Symphony’s 2020/21 Virtual Season closes as it opened with a program featuring Concertmaster Terence Tam. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is an undisputed romantic masterpiece that is paired here with a work by Louise Farrenc, a French composer of the same period as Mendelssohn who rejected Parisian tastes and pursued instead the ideals of German absolute music. Her Overture No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 24 is clearly influenced by Beethoven and evidence of why her music was performed widely in Europe during her lifetime. This concert premieres Thursday, June 24 @ 7:30 pm at victoriasymphony.ca and is available until July 23, 2021.