Denise Djokic Plays Haydn

Featuring: Holly Mathieson, conductor

Denise Djokic, cello

Dinuk Wijeratne: Yatra

Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in C Major

L. Christopher Palmer: 40^th Anniversary Commission

Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3

Symphony Nova Scotia performs the crowning achievement of Louise Farrenc, one of France’s greatest 19th-century composers, to start their 40th Spotlight season. The expressive and spirited Cello Concerto in C Major, gifted by Haydn to a good friend, will be interpreted by Nova Scotia’s own Denise Djokic. Rounding out the program is Dinuk Wijeratne’s Yatra, a work commissioned to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial, and a new composition written especially for the 40th season from Symphony Nova Scotia bassoonist Christopher Palmer.