Opening Concert: Karina Canellakis and Christian Tetzlaff

Zoltán Kodály - Dances from Galanta, Antonín Dvořák - Violin Concerto, John Adams - Harmonium. Programme Zoltán Kodály Dances from Galanta Antonín Dvořák Violin Concerto John Adams Harmonium Exciting folk dances, a beloved violin concerto and hypnotic choral and orchestral sounds. The opening concert of the AVROTROS Friday Evening Series is immediately a thundering statement. A hallucinatory trip with Dvořák's Violin Concerto as the highlight and Adams' Harmonium as 'afterparty'. Conductor Carina Canellakis will give it her all. Peak of Romanticism Dvořák's Violin Concerto is said to be the 'most perfect romantic concerto'. Two roughly equally long outer movements encompass such a typically lyrical and melancholic Dvořák adagio. The great violinist Joseph Joachim had his doubts, but the public embraced the work immediately after the premiere. With Christian Tetzlaff as soloist, that is also the only option now. Fiendishly difficult The German violinist Christian Tetzlaff once made a name for himself by performing the fiendishly difficult violin concerto by Schoenberg at a young age. It brought him world fame. That he can also make his violin sing wonderfully romantically, he proved with Dvořák's Violin Concerto, recording it twice: with 'an exceptionally broad range of colours and nuances, from extremely fragile to pure passion', according to Gramophone.