FABIO LUISI conducts
NATHAN OLSON violin
STUART STEPHENSON trumpet
KATHRYN HENRY soprano

BEETHOVEN “Ah, perfido!” Scene and Aria for Soprano and Orchestra
BACH Violin Concerto in E Major
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major
MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, “Haffner”

Three spectacular soloists grace this program that follows a thread of musical styles from Baroque to early Classical. Co-Concertmaster Nathan Olson is front-and-center in Bach’s Violin Concerto in E Major, whose poignant Adagio is one of his most sublime creations, with the solo violin exquisitely embroidering the underlying bass line. Our Principal Trumpet Stuart Stephenson does the honors in Haydn’s tour de force concerto, traversing the instrument’s registers by leaps and bounds, but also bringing out its singing qualities. Mozart’s festive “Haffner” Symphony ends in a romping rondo, that Mozart said had to be played “as fast as possible.” In a dramatic concert aria, Kathryn Henry calls down the wrath of the gods on her perfidious lover. Hell hath no fury…