Alina Ibragimova Plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Overview The exhilarating virtuoso returns to direct the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a program full of intensity and passion Alina Ibragimova is an electrifying performer. She lives every moment of the music, inhabiting the emotion so completely you almost miss her technical mastery. A virtuoso in every sense of the word, she invites audiences into her world, offering an experience that is both authentic and thrilling. Tchaikovsky ’s Violin Concerto in D major is a concerto so demanding it was deemed unplayable by its original dedicatee. Reeling from a disastrous marriage and withdrawn from the world, Tchaikovsky sketched it in just 11 days, pouring his melancholy and restlessness into a work that audiences love and violinists savour. It encompasses romance and passion, pulsing with the dynamic rhythms of folk dance. Bookended by Tchaikovsky , the concert opens with Anton Arensky ’s Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky : a lush string work of contrast and colour, at times playful a