The program was cancelled
The program was cancelled
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Conductor:
John Adams
Tromba Lontana
R. Strauss
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8
Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
This concert features compositions representing Romanticism and minimalism alike and dating from the 1880s to the 1980s by three composers: one still in his late adolescence, another who was passionately in love at the time, and a third fulfilling a commission. Concerto Budapest's guest soloist will be the Russian violinist Boris Brovtsyn: with more than 50 concertos in his repertoire, he has nevertheless only played chamber music on his visits to Hungary so far.
The Houston Symphony commissioned the American minimalist composer John Adams, now a living legend, to write this orchestral fanfare that is often played with the trumpets scattered around the concert hall's balconies to mark the 150th anniversary of the secession of Texas from Mexico in 1986. Already full of ambition at the age of 17, Richard Strauss dedicated his one and only violin concerto to his violin teacher, his cousin Benno Walter, concertmaster at the Munich Court Theatre. ''Oh, heavens, what are they to make of this chaos of which new worlds are forever being engendered, only to crumble in ruin the moment after? What are they to say to this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound, to these dancing stars, to these breathtaking, iridescent and flashing breakers?' Thus wrote Gustav Mahler as he was working on his Fifth Symphony around the time of his wedding, not fully confident that the contemporary audience would listen to the work with understanding, as he also wished, 'Oh, that I might give it its first performance fifty years after my death!'
Presented by: Concerto Budapest
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