Vietnamese-Australian star Nguyen Van Anh will headline a friendship concert programme in Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the 45^th anniversary of the Vietnam-Australia diplomatic ties.

Vietnamese-Australian star Nguyen Van Anh. (Source: Internet)

The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) revealed the concert will take place at the Saigon Opera House on September 9.

Anh is well-known as a pianist and composer in Australia, where her engaging personality has created her reputation as a standard-bearer for the Australia-Vietnamese community.

She will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody”, which was composed in six weeks in 1934.

The song, including 24 variations on Paganini’s famous 24^th Capriccio (caprice), is said to be one of the most difficult violin pieces ever written.

After the interval, the HBSO orchestra will present Cesar Frank’s “Symphony in D Minor”, which was composed in 1886-1888.

Cesar Frank was born Belgian and later took French citizenship, beginning his career as an organist before becoming a composer. He produced several works that have since become very famous - such as “Violin Sonata”, “Symphonic Variations” (for piano and orchestra) and “Piano Quintet”./.

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