• Tue 11.02.
  • 7.30 p.m.
  • Bremen
    ·Die Glocke
  • Please note that concerts will now start at 7:30 p.m.

Best of Tchaikovsky

2nd First Night 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

With his compelling interpretations of Mozart, Jérémie Rhorer took the international music scene by storm almost twenty years ago. Since then, this French conductor and composer has successfully moved between opera and symphonic music. Rhorer was already performing at a high level as a child and went on to study conducting with Emil Tchakarov, Karajan’s renowned assistant, before finally finding his artistic calling whilst studying composition with Thierry Escaich.

Through Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he founded in 2005 and continues to lead to this day, Rhorer is regarded as one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice for the Classical and Romantic repertoire, exploring a path stretching from Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms to Bruckner, and from Gluck and Berlioz to Verdi and Wagner –  always with the aim of reviving the timbres and theatricality, in keeping with the spirit of the work.

Guest engagements regularly take him to renowned orchestras worldwide as well as to Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Venice and Florence, with a repertoire expanding from Mozart to Schoenberg.

In 2025, Jérémie Rhorer received the Honor of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

This sought-after conductor has been working closely with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years. Their current collaboration focuses on works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Violin

Bomsori

»This violinist can do anything: with virtuosity, presence, clarity and a warm, full tone, Bomsori knows how to make every moment her own«, writes ›Crescendo Magazin‹ about the South Korean-born violinist. Having studied at Seoul National University and the Juilliard School in New York, she has long been celebrated internationally and shines in the great concert halls as well as at festivals worldwide. Highlights of the current season include tours with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša in Germany and Asia, a return to Carnegie Hall with Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and a return to Vienna with the Wiener Symphoniker.

Most recently, Bomsori made her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and toured with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, to name just a few highlights of recent seasons. In 2021, this violinist was a Focus Artist at the Rheingau Music Festival and began a five-year residency at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as a Menuhin’s Heritage Artist. Her discography, including recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, is extensive. Her latest recording of Carl Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with Fabio Luisi and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra was awarded the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Award. Bomsori plays the 1725 Guarnerius del Gesù ›ex-Moller‹ violin on generous loan from the Samsung Foundation of Culture and the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

With his compelling interpretations of Mozart, Jérémie Rhorer took the international music scene by storm almost twenty years ago. Since then, this French conductor and composer has successfully moved between opera and symphonic music. Rhorer was already performing at a high level as a child and went on to study conducting with Emil Tchakarov, Karajan’s renowned assistant, before finally finding his artistic calling whilst studying composition with Thierry Escaich.

Through Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he founded in 2005 and continues to lead to this day, Rhorer is regarded as one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice for the Classical and Romantic repertoire, exploring a path stretching from Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms to Bruckner, and from Gluck and Berlioz to Verdi and Wagner –  always with the aim of reviving the timbres and theatricality, in keeping with the spirit of the work.

Guest engagements regularly take him to renowned orchestras worldwide as well as to Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Venice and Florence, with a repertoire expanding from Mozart to Schoenberg.

In 2025, Jérémie Rhorer received the Honor of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

This sought-after conductor has been working closely with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years. Their current collaboration focuses on works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.