Symphoniker Hamburg / Veronika Eberle / Han-Na Chang

Date & Time

Sun, Dec 1, 2024, 19:00

Venue

Thinking of forests in the finale of Mendelssohn’s immortally beautiful Violin Concerto in E minor is a real recommendation inasmuch as the fairies, will-o’-the-wisps and kind-hearted gnomes romping about in it are comparatively harmless creatures. Composed between 1838 and 1844 for his friend Ferdinand David, concertmaster of Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester, it was intended to be a brilliant piece (»stilo moltissimo concertantissimo«). Mendelssohn joked back that the soloist’s entire first movement would consist of a single high E. In the end, the two Hamburg natives were extremely happy with the result.

Keywords: Symphony Concert

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Musicians

Symphoniker Hamburg
Veronika Eberle	Violin
Han-Na Chang	Conductor

Program

Overture from »Der Freischütz«, Op. 77	Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64	Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98	Johannes Brahms

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