In the heart of winter, this concert offers a welcome breath of spring. The lilting Voices of Spring Waltz shimmers with buoyant optimism, while Frederick Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring unfolds in gentle, pastoral hues, evoking thawing landscapes and a renewal that is soon to come. Anchoring the program, Johannes Brahms’s Serenade No. 2 offers warm lyricism and graceful charm, its sunlit textures and flowing melodies suggesting the promise of brighter days ahead.

PROGRAM

STRAUSS JR.: Frühlingsstimmen, op.410 (Voices of Spring) 
DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring
BRAHMS: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, op.16