Award-winning Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma joins WASO for Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, originally premiered in 1866 and revised the following year by violinist Joseph Joachim. The program also includes Richard Strauss’s much-revised Macbeth, which marked the beginning of the composer’s groundbreaking series of tone poems. Written between 1886–88, it is performed by WASO for the first time. Closing the program, Asher Fisch conducts Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, conceived during his first year of marriage and intended to portray his wife Clara.

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Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is known worldwide for her polished, expressive and intense playing, and she returns to WASO with Bruch’s ever-popular First Violin Concerto. The dark ambition and ruthless fury of Shakespeare’s iconic tyrant is brought thrillingly to life in Strauss’ early tone poem, Macbeth, performed by WASO for the very first time. Asher Fisch then leads the Orchestra in Schumann’s Symphony No.4, a work of passionate urgency and grand emotions.