Beethoven with Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux

Firebird’s 2024/25 season kicks off with a fantastic concert of two great classical masterpieces with the multi-award-winning violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux…

Beethoven’s mighty Violin Concerto was heralded by the famous 19th century violinist and conductor Joseph Joachim as the German composer’s greatest violin concerto and has since become one of the best-known and regularly performed works of the genre.

French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux is a YCAT and Concert Artists Guild Artist. In 2022 she was nominated as a Rising Star Artist by Classic FM. She led the Quatuor Confluence to 1st prize at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival in 2021. Charlotte, who joins us fresh from concertos with the CBSO and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, will shortly be going on a USA tour.

The second half of the concert features Mozart’s fabulously feisty finale – his final symphony, the Jupiter. But why Jupiter?

Regarded as one of the great symphonies of all time, the name is said to have been coined not by Mozart but by the impressario Salomonafter the English music publisher Cramer claimed that from the opening chords the symphony reminded him of the Roman god, Jupiter – the King of the Gods and his thunderbolts.

George Jackson (pictured below) conducts this opening concert, the first in a fabulous season throughout 2024 and into 2025.

Beethoven with Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux

Tuesday 24 September 2024
St George’s Hanover Square
2A Mill Street, Mayfair, London W1S 1FX

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61
Mozart Symphony No.41, K.551 Jupiter

London Firebird Orchestra
Guest Conductor George Jackson
Violin Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux