Munich Philharmonic: BrahmsZubin Mehta (conductor) and Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
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Johannes Brahms once said to the conductor Hermann Levi: “I will never compose a symphony. You have no idea how the likes of us feel when we hear such a giant marching behind us.” With “giant”, of course, he meant Beethoven. How lucky that Brahms’s prophecy failed to come true and he did indeed succeed in eventually stepping out of Beethoven’s shadow.
This event is in the past.
Johannes Brahms once said to the conductor Hermann Levi: “I will never compose a symphony. You have no idea how the likes of us feel when we hear such a giant marching behind us.” With “giant”, of course, he meant Beethoven. How lucky that Brahms’s prophecy failed to come true and he did indeed succeed in eventually stepping out of Beethoven’s shadow.
- Lisa Batiashvili, violin
- Munich Philharmonic
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
With his “First”, Brahms found his distinctive symphonic voice. For Zubin Mehta, hearing Brahms’s Symphony No 1 for the first time in Vienna as a young student was an eye-opener. For Lisa Batiashvili, Johannes Brahms’s symphonies count among music history’s greatest masterpieces, as she revealed in an interview. All four of them would be her first choice for music to take on a desert island. Batiashvili also regards Brahms’s Violin Concerto as a kind of symphony – a very personal one, in which the composer reveals his feelings and speaks with a deep human passion.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77
Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68
