Best of Tchaikovsky / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Wed 12.02.
7.30 p.m.
Bremen
·Die Glocke

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

Best of Tchaikovsky

1st Hansa I subscription concert

Works by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen’s Tchaikovsky Project with Jérome Rhorer has reached another milestone: as with Paavo Järvi, the aim is to collaborate over several years to explore a composer’s symphonic works in depth and produce a new, benchmark interpretation. The Sixth Symphony, known as the ›Pathétique‹, is Tchaikovsky’s final work; its premiere was performed just nine days before his death. However, it is not only its association with this sombre event that has made the symphony famous – Tchaikovsky, who regarded it as his best work, also included a few surprises, such as the waltz in 5/4 time and the melancholy last movement, an adagio lamentoso. The young South Korean violinist Bomsori is performing with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for the first time, and is tackling Tchaikovsky’s challenging Violin Concerto, whose original dedicatee declined to perform the world premiere, pronouncing it unplayable. The audience can look forward to one of the most beautiful slow movements for violin and an exuberant finale!

Programme

- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
- Violin concerto in D major op. 35
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 74 ›Pathétique‹

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.

Violin

Bomsori

Bomsori was born in South Korea and has already been a star in her home country for some time. She studied at Seoul National University and then at the Juilliard School in New York. This violinist is also internationally celebrated for her »virtuosity, presence, clarity and a warm, full tone« (›Crescendo Magazin‹). In the 2023/24 season, she made her debut at the BBC Proms, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Residentie Orkest, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and toured Asia with the Wiener Symphoniker. She has also worked with conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop, Lahav Shani, Vasily Petrenko, Pablo Heras-Casado, Paavo Järvi, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Anja Bilhmaier, as well as many other internationally renowned orchestras.

Bomsori has won numerous competitions, including the ARD International Music Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. In 2021, she was Focus Artist of the Rheingau Music Festival, began a five-year residency at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as Menuhin’s Heritage Artist in the same year and signed an exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon label. She plays the 1725 ›ex-Moller‹ Guarnerius del Gesù (Cremona) violin, on loan thanks to the generous efforts of the Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea and the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Conductor