Veer Magazine
The Virginia Symphony opens its 2023-24 Season with a Beethoven Festival whose bounties Music Director and concert conductor Eric Jacobsen twice likened to a “steak dinner with dessert,” a two course musical feast of “pieces that will bring people together for many years to come.”
Ludwig’s van Beethoven’s unique 1803-04 Triple Concerto – formally, Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 – opens these mid-September Thursday and Friday concerts with what might be seen as a mash-up of chamber and symphonic music that lasts a little less than 40 minutes.