Name: Brahms 3
Start: 2025-05-22T20:00:00
Location: Alte Oper

Alain Altinoglu

Sebastian Berner

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

A Brahms of today must sound fresh, agile, "without a beard"—that's the ideal of Alain Altinoglu, who continues his Brahms cycle with the Third Symphony. He skillfully integrates this sunny symphony into a program of Brahms-Haydn connections, featuring an appearance by the award-winning hr solo trumpeter. The "Third" is an unusually bright, even sunny work; Clara Schumann described it as a symphonic forest idyll. This demands a particularly delicate approach from the orchestra, says the chief conductor of the hr Symphony Orchestra: "Transparency is more important than opulence," he succinctly puts it. Brahms with classical virtues, then. And Brahms himself was quite classically oriented when he composed his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn," although the source material probably wasn't actually by Haydn. A guaranteed Haydn experience: his Trumpet Concerto, one of his most popular works, with Sebastian Berner as soloist. The principal trumpeter of the hr Symphony Orchestra won First Prize at the 2022 International Maurice André Competition in Paris – with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto as his final piece.