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credit Neda Navaee
credit Ben Ealovega
Renowned for their collaborative spirit, the GRAMMY-Award winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has played without a conductor since their inception, performing with “edge-of-the-seat intensity” and displaying an “infectious love for making music” (NY Times) for audiences around the world. Making his long-awaited Orpheus debut, violinist James Ehnes glamorizes the gorgeous French aesthetic in Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Chausson’s Poème. To honor his 150th birthday, a new commission brings Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor into the chamber orchestra repertoire. Composer and violist Jessica Meyer has a keen ear for ensemble color, and her friends in Orpheus are ready to dispatch her newly commissioned Cartes Postales.
Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Arranged by Paul Chihara
Jessica Meyer
Cartes Postales
Commissioned by Orpheus
Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor, Op. 28
James Ehnes, violin
Arranged by David Walter
Chausson
Poème for violin & orchestra, Op. 25
James Ehnes, violin
Arranged by David Walter
Ravel
Chamber Symphony (after Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67a)
Orchestrated by Zachary Wadsworth, commissioned by Orpheus
“Orpheus’s sensitivity and expressivity left us with a serene sense of peace and wonder.”