Canadian Juno Award-winning Amanda Forsyth has long been regarded as one of North America's most dynamic cellists. She's one of those rare musicians who has achieved that recognition as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer. Since 2008 she's been principal cello of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra. She's got this incredibly rich sound, fingers to die for, plus she's a musician's musician. She really goes for it, both in live performances, and recordings. Today we sample from her 2015 recording of the Brahms Concerto for Cello and Violin which was recorded live with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
Amanda is joined in this performance by her husband, world-renowned violinist, Pinchas Zukerman. They'll be teaming up with Maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the Greensboro Symphony for two concerts next week featuring the Brahms Double. It's a remarkable, relatively late work by the great German composer. His final work for orchestra was originally composed, at least in part, as a gesture of reconciliation towards his old, but estranged friend the violinist Joseph Joachim. Little did Brahms know that more than a century later, this very same piece of music would pave the way for a very different relationship.
On Thursday, January 28th and Saturday the 30th, Amanda and violinist Pinchas Zucherman will join violinist/conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for two performances of the Brahms Double. Audience members will double their pleasure, double their fun, when Dmitry exchanges his baton for his violin and a performance with Pinchas Zukerman of Bach's famous Double Concerto for 2 Violins. Concerts start at 8:00pm in Dana Auditorium in Greensboro.