Echoes of how and sorrow.

With Chief Conductor Eivind Aadland and featuring Associate Concertmaster Ji Won Kim & Principal Viola Caleb Wright.

Mozart’s sunny and profound Sinfonia Concertante contrasts with the shifting temperaments of Shostakovich.

Sitting between a symphony and a concerto, the sinfonia concertante inhabits the best of both worlds and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola is the best of the best. Husband and wife team Ji Won Kim and Caleb Wright do the honours as co-soloists in Mozart’s sunny and profound work.

Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich crowned his career as a symphonist with the Symphony No 15, which was written in 1971. As always with Shostakovich’s music, the symphony swings between cheerful and despairing moods, boisterous high jinks and deep sorrow. In other words, it offers a rich and layered account of lived experience.

Opening the concert is Rossini’s rollicking overture to the opera William Tell. Well known from its use in television shows, films and cartoons, Rossini’s overture is quoted in Shostakovich’s Symphony No 15, setting up a dialogue between the opening and closing works.

Watch the livestream on Friday 1 Aug 2025 7:30pm
Available on demand Friday 15 August until Friday 12 September

PROGRAM
Rossini William Tell, Overture
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat, K364
Shostakovich Symphony No 15 in A, Op 141

MUSICIANS
Conductor: Eivind Aadland
Violin: Ji Won Kim
Viola: Caleb Wright
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Federation Concert Hall, Nipaluna / Hobart