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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 C major op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
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Special Concert
26-07-2010, 8:00 PM
Bremen, The Glocke
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| Soloists
| Hilary Hahn, Violin
Paavo Järvi, Conductor
| Program
| The dedicatee received the work late, and he could not achieve the desired effect with it. Therefore, Franz Clement incorporated an acrobatic act into Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Only after the age of the virtuosos did conductor Felix Mendelssohn and soloist Joseph Joachim make the substance of the concerto accessible to the public. Since then, Opus 61 has been the great challenge for every generation of violinists. With Symphonies No. 1 and 5, the violin heavyweight acquires a backdrop that depicts the composer's development, from his struggle with tradition to the evolution of his own musical rhetoric. By the time he composed the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven had achieved his enlightenment - what moves man and what man can move is heard in this musical discourse on fate.
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