Melancholy hope
1st First Night subscription concert
Works by Beethoven, Mozart and Dvořák
He assembles notes so delicate, naturally neighbouring with the utmost ease like pearls on a string, purposeful in their dramatic sequence. Yet as he anticipated his approaching end, Mozart became more serious. In his Requiem all lightness vanished; this is partly true, too, of his clarinet concerto. At least in the slow movement, melancholy, sadness and hope breathe in concordance. Which composer would be able to express this as directly today? Jörg Widmann, as the creator of contemporary music, is currently more popular than ever, yet when inclination and time allow, he also performs as a clarinettist. He can again and again entice new colours from Mozart’s much performed late work. Widmann and The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen share a deep, long-standing mutual esteem which now, with David Afkham at the helm for this first subscription concert, will be documented anew. Mozart’s clarinet concerto will be flanked by Beethoven’s ›Coriolanus‹ Overture and the melancholy glow of Antonin Dvořák’s seventh symphony.