Jan Willem de Vriend © Emelie Schaefer
Wiener KammerOrchester / Horsch / de Vriend
Sunday
15
June
2025
10:30 – ca. 12:00
Mozart-Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Rarities and Baroque splendour
Jan Willem de Vriend, chief conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, has put together a dramaturgically sophisticated program for this concert. The soloist is the young star recorder player Lucie Horsch. At the age of 17, she recorded her acclaimed debut album »Vivaldi« in 2016, which won an Edison Klassiek Award, and others followed. In addition to Vivaldi's enchanting Concerto in C major (RV 443 for flautino), she performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto in F major BWV 1053. It is not entirely certain for which instrument this was originally composed. Lucie Horsch's performance is framed by two rarely heard works: Benjamin Britten's »Simple Symphony« from 1933/34, in which he reused material from his childhood, is heard at the beginning. The final piece is a rarity: the Allegro for four string quartets by the Dutch composer Johannes Bernardus van Bree from 1846 - the first work by the Romantic composer to be performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus.