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The year 1943

Name: The year 1943
Start: 2025-03-14T20:00:00
Location: Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Bochumer Symphoniker

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Strauss 's second horn concerto was written 60 years after the first, in November 1942, in the middle of the war. He wrote it quickly, in just a few weeks, but the circumstances were difficult: Strauss was feeling his advanced age, worried about his Jewish daughter-in-law and her family - and the Battle of Stalingrad was raging in the East. The second horn concerto was a welcome escape for Strauss into cheerfulness and a better past. It is not on...

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Richard Strauss - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 2 in E-flat major

Participants

Radek Baborák

Horn

Andris Poga

Conductor

Bochumer Symphoniker

Producer

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2 dates (13 Mar - 14 Mar)