Clara-Jumi Kang plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 4

Tchaikovsky plays the leading role in this concert with guest conductor Alexandre Bloch, the face of the Orchestre National de Lille for almost ten years. Tchaikovsky's fierce and tempestuous Fourth Symphony is beloved. It shows the struggle in Tchaikovsky's life at the time the work was created, but also the unyielding strength to get back on top. He carries the audience from the tragic fanfare at the beginning to the highest jubilation in the finale.

Clara-Jumi Kang

Tchaikovsky's famous Violin Concerto is on the music stand of every great violinist. Including Clara-Jumi Kang, who really began her career as a prize winner of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. The concert begins with a commissioned work by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen. In The Rapids of Life she describes the birth of new life: the tension, the struggle, the pain, but also the deep joy at seeing the newborn.