The InClassica International Music Festival returns to Dubai on Sunday 12th February 2023, with a Grand Opening featuring Japanese violinist Fumiaki Miura alongside the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra, led by Italian conductor Massimiliano Caldi. The concert will open with Romantic composer Max Bruch's most famous work, his Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, which was premiered in 1866 and has remained incredibly popular ever since. The programme shall then move on to Alexey Shor’s Phantasms for Violin and Orchestra, a concerto in three movements which perfectly exhibits the evocative and mellifluous style that the contemporary composer has become renowned for. Following a brief intermission, the orchestra returns with Tchaikovsky’s beloved Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, which has gone on to transcend the realm of classical music, with its passionate ‘love theme’, in particular, featuring in a host of different media throughout the years. Finally, the evening comes to an end with Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances No. 1 and No. 5. These compositions were so immediately popular that they proved to be the most profitable of the composer’s entire career, with the works, which are primarily based on Hungarian themes, going on to be arranged for a vast variety of instruments and ensembles, in testament to their enduring appeal.
