Munich Philharmonic: Dvořák Gibson / BrahmsAnja Bihlmaier (conductor), Kian Soltani (cello)
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Antonín Dvořák embedded a very personal message in his Cello Concerto: a quote from his lied “Lasst mich allein in meinen Träumen”. This was the favourite song of his sister-in-law and former childhood sweetheart, Josefina Kounicová, of whose death Dvořák learned while working on the concerto in the USA.
This event is in the past.
Antonín Dvořák embedded a very personal message in his Cello Concerto: a quote from his lied “Lasst mich allein in meinen Träumen”. This was the favourite song of his sister-in-law and former childhood sweetheart, Josefina Kounicová, of whose death Dvořák learned while working on the concerto in the USA.
Kian Soltani has a special affinity with this concerto, so full of painful longing and deep-felt sadness: “This work will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Anja Bihlmaier, who comes from Germany and is the principal conductor of the Den Haager Residentie Orkest, combines Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with a new work by American composer Sarah Gibson and the orchestral version of Johannes Brahms’ first Piano Quartet arranged by Arnold Schoenberg.
Otto Klemperer had commissioned the Viennese composer, who was living in exile in the USA, with the arrangement. Schönberg’s rendition of the late Romantic work by a composer he greatly admired is often referred to as “Brahms’ fifth symphony”. Klemperer even believed that “you don’t even want to hear the original quartet any more, beautiful as this arrangement is.”
Programme
- Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
- Sarah Gibson: New Work for Orchestra (German premiere)
- Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25 (orchestra arrangement by Arnold Schönberg)
