LACO / Fragments to Forty February 12, 2006

Fragments to Forty

Feel the connection as rising star Daniel Hope performs Alfred Schnittke?s Sonata No. 1. This young artist worked so closely with the Russian composer that Schnittke?s widow entrusted him with a 1955 sonata discovered after her husband?s death. In his Southern California debut, Mr. Hope also performs three Mozart fragments that never made it into concertos ? the rondo and adagio composed in Salzburg in 1776 and the 1781 rondo from Vienna. Our program concludes with the dynamic intensity and mood-evoking themes of the 1788 symphony that stands as one of Mozart?s most creative works.

Daniel Hope is ?the most exciting British string player since Jacqueline du Pré.?

? London?s The Observer