Ticciati & Capuçon

Ticciati & Frang

She resembles a Nordic pixie: fresh-faced, fair complexion, flaxen hair, dark eyes. For good measure, the Norwegian violinist answers to the name Vilde, derived from »alfr« (elf) and »hildr«(battle). And in fact she’ll have both within her when she tackles Elgar’s Violin Concerto. After all, the work is neither for the faint-hearted nor for those afraid of heights. Extremely high notes, gruelling arabesques and arpeggios … a sensational experience in the Berliner Philharmonie.

Ticciati & Ridout

December 1804. Furious, Beethoven scratches out the »intitolata Bonaparte« dedication on the title page of his new Third Symphony. Napoleon, who he had idealised, has truly declared himself Emperor! That does not suit the composer’s ideal of freedom. Instead, he dedicates the work, which he now calls ›Eroica‹, to a prince. That may not sound quite logical, but whatever. The music is bombastic. »Heaven and earth must shake at its performance!« a student of Beethoven’s wrote. Which holds true until this day.

Ticciati in Istanbul

Ticciati in Ankara

Ticciati in Paris

Ticciati in Eindhoven

Ticciati in Brügge

Farewell Robin Ticciati

»Noise, scandal, mischief, subversion!« the press railed in 1895 about the Berlin premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. Some 120 years later, the original score of the ›Resurrection Symphony‹ sold at auction at Sotheby’s for EUR 5.3 million. Back then, it was conducted in Berlin by the composer himself. Now Robin Ticciati will bid his adieu as DSO Music Director with this revolutionary work, which surpasses all the usual dimensions and today is one of Mahler’s most popular symphonies.

Farewell Robin Ticciati

»Noise, scandal, mischief, subversion!« the press railed in 1895 about the Berlin premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony. Some 120 years later, the original score of the ›Resurrection Symphony‹ sold at auction at Sotheby’s for EUR 5.3 million. Back then, it was conducted in Berlin by the composer himself. Now Robin Ticciati will bid his adieu as DSO Music Director with this revolutionary work, which surpasses all the usual dimensions and today is one of Mahler’s most popular symphonies.

Marie Jacquot & Gautier Capuçon

“Significant, original, mature in its form”: thus Hans von Bülow waxed lyrical at the young Richard Strauss’s Symphony in F minor. Before achieving worldwide fame with his tone-poems, Strauss wrote two classical four-movement symphonies rarely heard in today’s concert halls. Even the BRSO is giving its very first performance of the Second Symphony, a blend of youthful bravado and masterly craftsmanship. A biographical counterpart to this symphony is Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto of 1918-19, whose introverted orchestral sound and long, pensive melodic lines from the soloist exude an atmosphere of farewell and nostalgia. The French conductor Marie Jacquot, designated chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen, is using this programme to make her BRSO début. She will also introduce the audience to a piece by the Scottish composer David Horne: The Turn of the Tide, after a painting by John Duncan.