Awakening and mastery
4th First night subscription concert
Works by Schubert and Brahms
It is the music of a young man, composed with the self-confidence of a conqueror who dares to scale the highest summit of instrumental music. Schubert was 16 and 18 years old when he wrote his first two symphonies – works that breathe the spirit of Haydn and Mozart but are characterised by their own richness of invention and at the same time a great inner unity. This was only recognised much later. Even Brahms, who had taken on the publication of Schubert’s oeuvre in a complete edition, did not want his early symphonies to be more than merely documented in it. Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie – dream partners when it comes to Brahms, and not just because of the complete recording of the four symphonies – contrast Schubert’s symphonic departures with the mastery of the Hamburg composer who, in his violin concerto composed on the sunny Wörthersee, achieved an unusual symbiosis of solo instrument and orchestra. The Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who once again travels to Bremen for the concert, takes on the enormous challenges of the score.
Unfortunately Nicola Benedetti has had to cancel her participation in our concerts in Bremen, Hamburg and Heidelberg as she is expecting her first child. We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to her and her family. We would like to thank Veronika Eberle for agreeing to stand in as substitute. The programme remains unchanged.
