Munich Philharmonic: BrahmsZubin Mehta (conductor) with Lisa Batiashvili (violin) and Gautier Capuçon (violoncello)
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In the first month of the year, the Brahms cycle takes centre stage in the Munich Philharmonic’s calendar, with four concert series under the baton of conductor laureate Zubin Mehta.
This event is in the past.
In the first month of the year, the Brahms cycle takes centre stage in the Munich Philharmonic’s calendar, with four concert series under the baton of conductor laureate Zubin Mehta.
- Lisa Batiashvili, violin
- Gautier Capuçon, cello
- Munich Philharmonic
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
Zubin Mehta reveals in his autobiography why he had wanted to become a conductor from an early age: among other reasons, to conduct Johannes Brahms’s four symphonies. In his incomparable career, he has made his wish come true several times over. The Munich audience can now experience Brahms’s oeuvre from Mehta’s perspective, formed over the course of an entire conducting career. To kick off the Brahms cycle, the voices and strings of soloists Lisa Batiashvili and Gautier Capuçon merge in intimately interwoven dialogues in the Double Concerto to form an “eight-stringed giant violin”, as Brahms once jokingly remarked. With his third symphony, Brahms proved an inspiration for his contemporaries, above all Antonín Dvořák: “What magnificent melodies are to be found there! It is all love and it makes your heart soar.”
Programme
- Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in A minor, Op 102
Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90
