InClassica celebrates its penultimate concert of the 2023 edition on Thursday 9th March with a concert at Dubai Opera featuring violinist Nancy Zhou and the Middle East Orchestra, led by Italian conductor Giuseppe Bruno. The programme opens with Giovanni Battista Sammartini’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, a baroque work in three movements that has remained a popular entry in the repertoire for centuries. Next comes Astor Piazzolla’s Spring and Summer from his The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, in an arrangement by Leonid Desyatnikov. Piazzolla wrote the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires between 1965 and 1970 as four separate pieces, utilising a compositional style influenced by classical, jazz music and tango orchestras. Between 1996 and 1998, composer Leonid Desyatnikov arranged the work Four for solo violin and string orchestra, splitting each season into three movements in the style of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. This is followed by Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite for string orchestra, a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written in 1884 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of playwright Ludvig Holberg. Originally composed for the piano, but later adapted for string orchestra, the suite is an early example in neoclassicism, as Grieg attempts to echo the music of Holberg’s era. Finally comes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimento in D major, also known as the Salzburg Symphony No.1, a work in three movements which was composed by the Austrian maestro in 1772.