When Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky was relaxing on Lake Geneva in 1878, the idyllic setting inspired him to write one of his most beautiful works, the Violin Concerto in D major. The young violinist Mira Foron returns to the Stuttgart State Orchestra with this audience favorite. Two years ago, she thrilled the audience in the Liederhalle with Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. David Philip Hefti pursues a different solo concerto concept with Final(ment)e for two trumpets and orchestra. The work was created in 2021 as an atmospheric reference to Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, but is to be understood as an independent composition. Hefti initially has the soloists play at some distance from the orchestra, which results in an “intentional blurring of the interplay“. The composer works with a wide range of timbres, which he enhances by using flugelhorns, C trumpets and a piccolo trumpet. The ten Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms, which are played after the interval, are also dazzling. The Viennese by choice from Hamburg landed indestructible hits with them – as glowing as they are rousing.

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3. Symphony Concert

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

It is and remains a musical mystery: Schubert’s String Trio D 471, a fascinating fragment of a work which, although it remained unfinished, provides a deep insight into the composer’s melodic inventiveness and harmonic sensibility. Only the first movement is complete. The Andante sostenuto, which has only survived in fragmentary form and is rarely heard, although only 39 bars long, gives an idea of the further musical ideas Franz Schubert harboured for this trio. In the middle of the programme are two works for violin and violoncello that were written around 100 years apart: Maurice Ravel’s colourful sonata »A la mémoire de Claude Debussy« and the world premiere of a new work by David Philip Hefti, which was written especially for Hellen Weiß and Gabriel Schwabe.

David Philip Hefti

Events

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7 - 8 Dec, 2025

3. Symphony Concert · Staatsorchester Stuttgart

Mar 2, 2026

Hellen Weiss / Zheng Wenxiao / Gabriel Schwabe · Elbphilharmonie

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