Virtuoso cello sounds / Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Wed 16.09.
7.30 p.m.
Bremen
·Die Glocke

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Virtuoso cello sounds

6th First Night subscription concert

Works by Mazzoli, Elgar and Brahms

Rarely has The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen played such a decisive role in a young musician’s career on more than one occasion, but Aurel Dawidiuk is an exception – honoured as a pianist at the 2019 Tonali Competition and as a conductor at the 2024 Ritter Prize Award Ceremony. He’ll now lead an ambitious programme featuring the incomparable Sol Gabetta as soloist in Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a piece described at its 1919 premiere as having “meaningful simplicity” yet grounded in “profound wisdom and beauty.” Brahms, who spent over 20 years bringing his First Symphony to life, paid clear homage to his role model Beethoven in some places, while carving out his own style, even including a personal nod to Clara Schumann in the slow movement. Missy Mazzoli, one of today’s most celebrated American composers and a 2019 Grammy winner for Best Contemporary Composition, wrote her Sinfonia in the “shape of a solar system”.

Programme

- Missy Mazzoli (*1980)
- Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
- Cello concerto in E minor op. 85
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68

Conductor

Aurel Dawidiuk

Violoncello

Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta is as welcome a guest with the major international orchestras as in the world’s major concert halls and at the most important festivals. Highlights from recent seasons include her celebrated residencies with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberg Symphoniker, her brilliant performance with Eun Sun and the Orchestre National de France and concerts with Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker. In 2020 she premiered the ›Concerto en Sol‹ composed for her by Wolfgang Rihm. In 2018 in her role as ›Artiste étoile‹ at the Lucerne Festival, she joined forces once again with Franz Welser-Möst and the Wiener Philharmoniker, François-Xavier Roth and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and also with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her chamber music projects are also in worldwide demand such as in New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Rhiengau Music Festival and the Bonn Beethovenfest. A large network of eminent musicians appears at Switzerland’s Solsberg Festival, founded by Sol Gabetta and directed by her since its inception in 2006. This Argentinian cellist has received numerous awards for her outstanding artistic activities, including the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Osterfestspiele 2018 and the Opus Klassik ›Instrumentalist of the Year‹ Award 2019. Sol Gabetta has worked with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for many years.

Conductor