Name: Thursday Concert No. 4
Start: 2024-12-12T20:00:00
Location: Volkshaus Jena

Holly  Hyun Choe

Valentino Worlitzsch

Jenaer Philharmonie

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".