Kavakos Leonidas © Marco Borggreve
Wiener Philharmoniker / Kavakos / Blomstedt
Monday
27
March
2023
19:30 – ca. 21:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Summits
The experts were impressed by his recording of Brahms' Violin Concerto. Now Leonidas Kavakos dedicates himself to this pinnacle of violin literature in a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic. The composer had hesitated for a long time before writing it, since he himself was a pianist. Instead, his friend, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim, was at his side as an advisor. Less frequently heard are the symphonies of Carl Nielsen, who was himself a violinist. »Carl Nielsen, Denmark's greatest son, was a born symphony composer«, Jean Sibelius wrote of his colleague in 1953. Laid out in two traditional symphonic movements, however, his Fifth proves to be anything but conventional upon closer inspection.
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