Violin superstar Joshua Bell performs Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, a rediscovered gem full of drama, technical virtuosity, and beautiful motifs. Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest takes the audience on a journey through the fantasy, folklore, and danger of the woodlands. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with its distinct storytelling, hilarious characters, and epic finale, unfolds like a vivid musical gallery, each movement painting a scene. Fast-rising star Jonathon Heyward leads the program.

Joshua Bell and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The ever-impressive Joshua Bell, a 2025/26 Spotlight Artist, returns to the TSO stage, bringing the lush cinematic magic of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann’s rediscovered Violin Concerto. The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra joins to deliver a rousing performance of Sibelius’s Finlandia to open, while Dvořák’s stirring Symphony No. 7 provides a magnificent finale.

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Joshua Bell Returns

David Pecaut Square

Dalia Stasevska leads a program honoring the Ukrainian people. Bohdana Frolyak’s Let There Be Light reflects on the Ukrainian conflict, and Joshua Bell is soloist in Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, a work “both heart-wrenching and uplifting,” Bell says, “as gripping and relevant today as when composed during WWII.” The program is bookended by other responses to war: Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem.

Joshua Bell Plays de Hartmann

David Geffen Hall

Dalia Stasevska conducts music that, in different ways, gives voice to the longing for freedom in times of war. Thomas de Hartmann, Aaron Copland, and Benjamin Britten composed their works during World War II, while Bohdana Frolyak wrote hers amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. American violinist Joshua Bell is the soloist in Hartmann’s Violin Concerto.

Dalia Stasevska Joshua Bell

Oslo Concert Hall

‘Perhaps people find something they need in this piece ... something they were missing.’ Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ translates a century’s loss and pain into sound, gathering up the broken pieces – of history, prayer and poetry – and giving them a home in music that’s as much requiem as a symphony. Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born composer Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, a lament for the Nazi destruction of his homeland. The concert opens with Respighi’s warmly expansive reworking of an organ chorale prelude by J. S. Bach.

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20 - 22 Nov, 2025

Joshua Bell and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition · Boston Symphony Orchestra

13 - 15 Nov, 2025

Joshua Bell Returns · Toronto Symphony Orchestra

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