An Evening At the Symphony with Beethoven and Angela Cheng

Magnificent.  The music is still ringing in my head. Piano, my favourite instrument, is a challenging, solid and grand instrument. Beethoven is my favourite composer with crashing, complex music that can also be soft and melodious.

Angela Cheng, an award winning Canadian pianist, backed up by the Victoria Symphony orchestra played masterfully and with confidence Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 and Concerto No. 3. Both Concertos were written for piano and orchestra. The audience was held spell bound until the standing ovation and many shout outs of Bravo and Bravissimo.

This evening is one of three held this weekend at the Royal Theatre in Victoria. Each evening  features Angela Cheng and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra playing two more of Beethoven’s Concerto each night. I have been fortunate to attend the first of the three.

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge

 which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend”

~ Ludwig van Beethoven