Violin virtuoso Kevin Zhu joins Hong Kong Sinfonietta for an evening full of Spanish flair

Georges Bizet’s Carmen is not the only 19th century piece of music crammed with Spanish flair and flavour. A month before the March 1875 premiere of Bizet’s southern Spain-set opera came fellow French composer Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole – a brilliant five-movement fiesta for violin and orchestra written for the legendary Spanish violinist, conductor and composer Pablo de Sarasate. Seduction was the word du jour for Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s concert centrepiece on September 26, when...