Reunion with the dream team / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Sat 10.05.
7.30 p.m.
Bremen
·Die Glocke

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

Reunion with the dream team

4th Highlight subscription concert

Works by Beethoven and Schubert

Paavo Järvi and Janine Jansen, a pairing that promises musical experiences of the highest calibre every time, especially when, as here, it is combined with absolute highlights of the classical repertoire! The long-standing Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen conducts Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4 written in 1816, dubbed his ›Tragic‹ – a sobriquet that probably refers primarily to the minor key that Schubert, then aged 19, used in a symphony for the first time. While the most serious of his symphonies, it does not get too tragic, and the second movement in particular is characterized by a soaring beauty. The orchestra’s 2009 CD of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Järvi and Jansen received high praise from critics and is still considered exemplary today. Deutschlandfunk hailed it as a »masterpiece of interpretation«. The monumental work left the audience at the premiere bewildered – there were simply too many new ideas! It was not until 1844, when it was revived by Joseph Joachim – later a close friend of Brahms – that the concerto finally achieved a breakthrough. Its technical and musical difficulty continues to present a challenge today.

Programme

- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Violin concerto in D major op. 61
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor D 417 ›Tragische‹

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

Janine Jansen

»Among the world’s star soloists, she is as keen a listener and as accomplished and sensitive a chamber music partner as one can get« (New York Times).

Violinist Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. This season’s highlights include a major US tour with London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano, and European tours with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under the direction of Paavo Järvi. She continues her Artistic Partnership with Camerata Salzburg and returns to perform Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹ together with Amsterdam Sinfonietta in Amsterdam and on tour across South America including in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Musikverein Wien features Janine Jansen as an ›Artist in Focus‹ with a variety of projects throughout its 2024/25 season.

Further orchestral engagements are planned with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Gaffigan, Luzern Sinfonieorchester/Sanderling and NDR Elbphilharmonie/Oramo with whom she performs the German premiere of Britta Byström’s violin concerto ›Shortening Days‹, a work co-commissioned by the orchestra.
Together with duo partners Denis Kozhukhin and Sunwook Kim she offers recitals across Europe and the USA including at New York Carnegie Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Paris Philharmonie and Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording released in June 2024 features Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 together with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was met with high critical acclaim throughout.

She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht as well as Co-Artistic Director of Sion Festival. Since November 2023 she is Professor of Violin Studies at Kronberg Academy where she will perform concerts together with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica during the Kronberg Festival in October 2024.

Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.

Janine Jansen plays the ›Shumsky – Rode‹ Stradivarius (1715) on generous loan from a European benefactor.

Conductor