Sunriver Music Festival Classical Concert III: The Leipzig Connection

Description

This concert features the three most central composers in the musical life of Leipzig.  After Schumann’s lively Manfred Overture, Festival Concertmaster Yi Zhao performs the ever-popular Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. The second half is all Bach, including a chamber orchestra arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (famous from Fantasia) and  Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (featuring the famous Air on the G String).