Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conducts Brahms and Schumann

Johann Sebastian Bach knew very well the consoling power that music has. He was virtually constantly composing new pieces – often following suggestions, as in the case of the six-part ricercar, a part of his »Musical Sacrifice«: none other than Frederick the Great inspired him in 1747 to compose this masterful fugue, which we perform in Anton Webern‘s colourful orchestration – before Schumann‘s symphony, in whose music Tchaikovsky felt »the echoe...