It featured three recent winners performing concertos (without intermission) with the Orchestra of St . Lukes, ably conducted by Michael Stern.
That evening I watched a Franco-Russian violinist named Fédor Roudine, the grand prix winner of the Aram Khachaturian International Competition, performing concertos in an elegant 1930s concert hall.
The Cologne group explores the Italian influence on J. S. Bach, performing concertos by dall'Abaco, Locatelli, and Sammartini in addition to the German master's Fourth and Fifth Brandenburg Concertos.
Last fall, she spent two weeks in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, performing concertos and leading community events, including school appearances, visits with educators and chamber music performances with student musicians.
But for the last dozen years or so, the organization has been ending its concert season in New York with a special program, the Irene Diamond Concert, offering several recent winners of Young Concert Artists auditions performing concertos, to let them really show off what they can do.
On Friday, Saturday and Tuesday, he conducts the First and Third ("Eroica") Symphonies and Karl Amadeus Hartmann's rarely performed "Concerto Funèbre" for solo violin and string orchestra, with the charismatic violinist Gil Shaham as soloist.
Pianists are expected to perform concertos that might last 40 or 50 minutes; a cellist will perform Bach's six cello suites – roughly two hours of music – from memory.
