Jugend musiziert
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Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 11:00Musicians
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The »Somerset Rhapsody« by Gustav Holst is an atmospheric and picturesque composition in which Holst was inspired by the idyllic English county of Somerset as well as many English folk songs. Delicate and tranquil melodies at the beginning evoke a sense of rural beauty, from which the full splendour of Somerset emerges: Large hills, meandering rivers and peaceful villages are just a few images that the composer musically conveys to the listener with his melodies over the course of his work. Belá Bartók’s Viola Concerto is considered one of the most important works for viola and orchestra, and not only in the 20th century. Several versions of this concerto can be found today, which is due to the fact that the composer was unable to complete this work during his lifetime. His pupil Tibor Serly completed the fragments handed down by Bartók into a concerto. The Bartók/Serly version is a three-movement work. It begins with a serious Moderato, followed by a fairly short, slow second movement and a finale in third place, which was composed in an Allegro vivace. Bartók’s compositional style is not based on song-like, motivic melodies as was common in the Romantic period. Instead, the composer creates his themes with a semitone whole-tone scale, which he uses to shape the concerto for viola and orchestra. The demanding solo part is played by 19-year-old Johannes Loschelder from the ranks of the Jugend Sinfonieorchester Ahrensburg. The Hamburg composer Johannes Brahms took his time with the publication of his First Symphony. He took around 20 years to complete it, putting himself too far in the shadow of the great symphony composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The four-movement work contains a densely woven introduction that introduces the dark and tense themes of the Symphony in C minor. Brahms’ symphonic style is characterised by singing melodies and instrumental solos, for example in the lyrical second movement. This contrasts with the rhythmic and dance-like character of the third movement, for which an exuberant cantilena in the clarinet at the beginning forms the basis. The final movement rounds off his 1st Symphony in C minor brilliantly: here too, Brahms opens the movement with a sombre and tense introduction, then plays an »alphorn melody« in joyful C major before moving on to the main movement, whose main theme is familiar to many thanks to the Hamburg Journal, for example. The themes are developed by Brahms and lead to a coda that rounds off this work impressively.
The 62nd Landeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert, taking place in Essen in March, will feature a concert of the youngest participants at the RWE Pavilion of the Essen Philharmonic Hall. The concert will showcase some of the best and most interesting performances by participants aged ten to twelve, in categories including solo strings, various chamber music ensembles, solo accordion, and vocal ensembles, as selected by the juries.
The Essen Philharmonic and Essen Youth Symphony Orchestra, celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2023, collaborate to perform Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony. Gustav Mahler's richer, more romantic orchestration gives the piece a unique character.
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