Melody without end: Christian Tetzlaff plays Beethoven and Sebastian Weigle conducts Rachmaninov with one of Japan’s finest orchestras.

Christian Tetzlaff is a violinist steeped in the German classical tradition, so it almost goes without saying that his Beethoven has a unique assurance and authority. But it’s thrillingly immediate and alive too: The New York Times described his playing as ‘tight, clean, and free of excess rhetoric’, and his interpretation of Beethoven’s soaring Violin Concerto is a thing of wonder.

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo

Cadogan Hall 

Brahms, a lifelong perfectionist, had always maintained he would never write a symphony, seemingly convinced it would never measure up to the likes of Beethoven’s. It is therefore understandable that Brahms may have dragged his feet a little; it took almost 15 years to finish his First Symphony. Beethoven’s influence is nonetheless present, particularly in the fourth movement which is deliberately reminiscent of the ‘Ode to Joy’ melody from the finale of the great master’s ‘Choral’ Symphony.

Brahms’s Symphony No.1

The Bridgewater Hall

The Hallé in Sheffield

Sheffield City Hall

Liszt’s breathtaking Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by an artist praised for his “enchanting, sensitive lyricism and hypnotizing forcefulness” (The Jerusalem Post), along with masterworks by Wagner and Richard Strauss that will send your imagination soaring.

Akira Ifukube

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo · Cadogan Hall

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