Orchestre de Champs-Elysées: Schumann/BrahmsPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
Philippe Herreweghe explores the sound of German Romanticism with his interpretations of Brahms and Schumann. Under his baton, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées will perform Schumann’s Violin Concerto in May.
Philippe Herreweghe explores the sound of German Romanticism with his interpretations of Brahms and Schumann. Under his baton, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées will perform Schumann’s Violin Concerto in May.
As with his fellow conductors like Gardiner, Norrington and Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe’s path led from Bach to Romanticism. The “grand seigneur of early music” discovered his love for the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann in the early 1990s. Though his passions may change and develop – perhaps even augment each other – Herreweghe remains ever true to his principles. His maxims of utmost clarity, calm and an “unobtrusive” interpretation are also evident in his performances of Romantic works, in which the music behind the subjective interpretation should not merely shine through but remain forever in the foreground.
With her unmistakable approach, the self-confident, masterfully creative virtuoso Kopatchinskaja always gets straight to the heart of a work and knows how to initiate new insights in her audience with her depth, brilliance and a dash of humour and theatricality.
Programme
- Robert Schumann: Overture to Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
- Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90
“[Herreweghe’s] interpretations sharpen the audience’s understanding of timbre, the role of each orchestral group and the balance between instruments, even in large orchestras.”
