Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra Orchester

Like the amateur orchestra – and the festival itself – the Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra is also experiencing a significant generational change at its helm. Following the long-standing director Matthias Kuhn is an equally dedicated promoter of young talents: the Essen-born Daniel Geiss, a true bundle of energy, currently active in Neubrandenburg and Belgrade. The highlight of this first public performance: The highly demanding music that Igor Stravinsky composed for the ballet Firebird – premiered in 1910 in Paris by Serge de Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes – is considered an ideal "teaching work" for young musicians, both technically and in terms of timbre and expressiveness.

Soloists from the Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra

Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra

Daniel Geiss, conductor

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Concerto for 4 Violins in B minor RV 580 from "L'estro armonico" op. 3 no. 10 (1711) 10'

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

"Romeo and Juliet," Fantasy Overture (1869) 20'

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

"The Firebird," Suite No. 2 from the Ballet Music (1919) 20'

60'