Hilary Hahn and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presented a powerful performance of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 at the XXII Macau International Music Festival on Tuesday, 14 October 2008. The movement on Hahn's passage was inspirational and as it gradually intensifies, reached just right balance of both harmony and thematic contrast between the soloist and the orchestra. When the music concludes with the powerful finale with which it began, everybody in the audience had turned himself/herself into indubitable fan of Hilary Hahn and Bramwell Tovey, conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Four encores at the end of the performance after rounds and rounds of applauses turned an extraordinary night of classical music into a lifetime experience. I'm just glad I was part of it.