Pianist Magdalene Ho returns to Dromore Yard, joined by clarinettist Pierre Génisson and violinist Elias David Moncado.

Magdalene Ho & Friends: French Elegance & Eastern Fire

Dromore Yard

A year of political and musical upheaval. The title of French composer Elsa Barraine's 2nd symphony is the Russian word for »war«, a work commissioned by the French Ministry for Culture in 1938. After the annexation of Austria and the Munich Agreement war was in the air, and subsequent events proved her right. But the work hints at a distant future. The war in the 1st movement is followed by a funeral march in the 2nd before the music returns to life in the finale.

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6th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Alte Oper

Inseparably linked to the "Rhine Romanticism" is the story of the Loreley, who combed her golden hair while singing on a rock so that sailors looked up at her and sailed towards dangerous reefs and shallows of the river. The myth inspired painters,
poets and musicians, including the Rhinelander Max Bruch, who composed "The Loreley" in 1863, a very rarely performed opera. The Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is completely different; it has been an indispensable part of concert halls since its premiere in Leipzig in 1845. Just a few years later, in 1850 in Düsseldorf, Robert Schumann's "Rhenish Symphony" was written. It is not a portrait of the river - rather, it combines sound-painting elements in which the Rhineland can be rediscovered.

Rhein & Romantik

Berliner Philharmonie

Supporting young musicians is especially close to Anne-Sophie Mutter’s heart. To this end, she founded the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008 and can now look back on an impressive roster of distinguished scholarship recipients, including Vilde Frang, Sergey Khachatryan, Daniel Müller-Schott, and Kian Soltani. Her latest discovery is Elias David Moncado, born in 2000: a German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist who won the Grand Prix and ten special prizes at the Karol Lipiński Competition in Poland, gave his first recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2025, and will release his debut album on the Warner Classics label in 2026. For this Lucerne debut, he will perform Maurice Ravel’s irresistible Violin Sonata, an American-inspired work with a “blue” movement at its center. Playing the “Ludwig, ex-Szigeti” Stradivari, he will also tackle high-virtuoso fare such as Franz Waxman’s finger-breaking Carmen Fantasie. And four more of Mutter’s protégés will also appear in this extraordinary debut concert, performing two brand-new pieces that Anne-Sophie Mutter commissioned especially for them to mark the 50th anniversary of her Lucerne stage debut — works now receiving their world premieres. For championing new music is another of this great virtuoso’s passions.

Elias David Moncado

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 3, 2026

Elias David Moncado | David Tobin | Ye-Eun Choi | Hwayoon Lee | Lionel Martin | Lauma Skride · Lucerne Festival

Past events

May 31, 2026

Magdalene Ho & Friends: French Elegance & Eastern Fire · Blackwater Valley Opera Festival

8 - 9 Feb, 2026

6th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts · Oper Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Violin Concerto in E Minor by Mendelssohn

Berliner Symphoniker

Violin in Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major by Ravel

Lucerne Festival

Violin in Violin Concerto in D Major by Korngold

Oper Frankfurt

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