Gil Shaham plays Barber

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM Lawn Paver Bar Thomas Adès Excerpts from Inferno (Dante Ballet – Part I) Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 Samuel Barber was a serious composer and a gifted orchestral craftsman perhaps best known for his cinematic Adagio for Strings. Equally lush and compelling, his violin concerto gained popularity for its lyrical and songful first two movements and completely virtuosic third. The great violinist Gil Shaham returns to Sun Valley to share this marvelous work with us. To open the concert, Euan Shields conducts several excerpts from Thomas Adès’s Inferno, whose passages vividly depict episodes in Dante’s journey through Hell. Alasdair’s take on the program: I’ve known Gil since I conducted him in the Julliard pre-college orchestra; even then I knew he was destined to be one of the greatest violinists of his generation.