Violinist

SO ZARATHUSTRA WAS SILENT ... and Böcklin put down his brush. Strauss' tone poem is so expressive that even the eloquent Nietzsche listens speechlessly; forms and...

Gewandhausorchester, Ingo Metzmacher conductor

Gewandhaus

school concert

When Britta Byström was commissioned to write a piece for the Nikolai Malko Competition in 2021, she remembered Jules Verne's story "A Drama in the Air", in which a balloon ride takes us ever higher. What is a conducting competition in which the participants direct the music through movements in the air, other than such a drama, she asked herself and composed "A Drama in the Air". Soloist Valentino Worlitzsch and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra follow the short orchestral piece with Edward Elgar's melancholic Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85, his last completed work from 1919. Things get mysterious with Elgar's Enigma Variations, op. 36 from 1898, as it is said to contain a reminiscence of Ludwig van Beethoven, more precisely the 2nd movement of his 8th Piano Sonata, op. 13 "Pathétique".

Violinist

Valentino Worlitzsch

Events

Past events

Jan 31, 2025

Gewandhausorchester, Ingo Metzmacher conductor · Gewandhausorchester

Jan 30, 2025

school concert · Gewandhausorchester

Future and recently performed repertoire

cello in Cello Concerto, Op.129 by Schumann

Gewandhausorchester

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