Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Respighi

Date & Time

Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 20:00

Venue

Konzerthalle Bamberg, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal (Bamberg)

»Music is love‘s soul, for it is the touching of the divine with the human.« These were the thoughts of Bettina von Arnim – and in our concert conducted by Andrew Manze we indulge in such deep soundscapes as Respighi‘s »Concerto Gregoriano« from 1921: it conjures up a religiously solemn world of the middle ages – inspired by his preoccupation with the honorable church modes and meditative melodies of Gregorian chant, which had seized him »like an addiction« at the... Read full text

Keywords: Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Andrew Manze	Conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann	Violin

Program

Konzert für Violine und Orchester »Concerto Gregoriano«	Ottorino Respighi
Symphonie Nr. 1 c-Moll WAB 101 (Wiener Fassung)	Anton Bruckner

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