A homage to love / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Wed 10.12.
7.30 p.m.
Bremen
·Die Glocke

Please note that concerts will now start at 7:30 p.m.

A homage to love

3rd Hansa II subscription concert

Works by Schubert and Bartók

To round out the year, the orchestra’s Artistic Director, Paavo Järvi, will raise his baton once again. The successful collaboration with the talented artist Alena Baeva, who last performed the Strauss Violin Concerto with this ensemble, will continue with Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1. In 1906, Bartók had met and fallen in love with the young violinist Stefi Geyer, and composed this concerto for her. He included a personal note in the score and dedicated it to her upon completion, despite the fact that she had already broken off the relationship. Although she kept the manuscript, she never performed the concerto. It was not until 1958, thirteen years after Bartók’s death, that Hansheinz Schneeberger and Paul Sacher performed it for the first time. Schubert’s so-called youthful symphonies have always struggled to compete with his markedly different last two, the ›Unfinished‹ ‚and the innovative ›Great‹ C major Symphony. However, looking forward rather than back, beginning with Haydn and Mozart, it is possible to discover a wealth of Schubert’s inventiveness in the Fifth and Sixth symphonies.

Programme

- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Symphony No. 5 in B flat major D 485
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
- Violin concerto No. 1 Sz. 36
- Béla Bartók
- Rhapsody No. 1 BB 94b
- Franz Schubert
- Symphony No. 6 in C major D 589 ›Kleine C-Dur‹

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.

Violin

Alena Baeva

Praised by the ›New York Classical Review‹ for her »magnetic presence« and fascinating technical ability, Alena Baeva is one of the most exciting violinists of her generation. This multi-award-winning violinist has rapidly become a highly acclaimed soloist, performing with many major orchestras, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also collaborates with other outstanding ensembles and conductors such as Marek Janowski or performing artists such as Duncan Ward. Highlights of the current and upcoming season include debuts with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National de Lyon among others.

A passionate chamber musician, Alena Baeva also performs with esteemed musical colleagues such as Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet or Steven Isserlis as well as with the Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, with whom she has had a musical partnership for more than a decade. Alena Baeva is known for her broad, rapidly expanding repertoire. This range is also reflected in her extensive discography. After her acclaimed concert debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in 2022, the violinist is now returning to this orchestra.

Conductor