Program Notes
Sounds of Italy Program Notes
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio ltalien
Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky: Capriccio ltalien

Some music meets you where you are. Other music finds you before you know you need it.
For me, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the Pathétique, belongs to the second category. It’s one of the most personal symphonies ever written and a work that I return to again and again, discovering something new each time.
Vivian Fung: Aqua
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6