Conductor: Zsolt Hamar Featuring: Quarta Massimo – violin Satie: Gymnopédies, No. 1, 3 Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77 César Franck: Symphony in D minor “Three works and three different worlds from the end of the 19th century. And yet it is a wonderfully rounded concert programme. But in truth, what is the difference in Romanticism between the way two nations think, between the French and Germans? If I look from Eric Satie’s perspective, it’s winter and summer, fire and water.... Hearing César Franck’s music, the difference narrows: the devices and musical language is naturally richer by Brahms, but the melody is comparable. Yes, Satie, that unique figure of music history. According to James Gibb, his music says terrible things but from the calm mouth of a child. Ravel respected him and premiered his series Gymnopédies; Debussy was also impressed and orchestrated one of the set. Although César Franck’s Symphony in D minor is also from 1888, the same year as Satie’s, the latter is a composition of a young man, while the last piece in the programme is that of an old master. Between them is the Violin Concerto written when Brahms was at the height of his powers. Brahms’s rich inner musical world goes well beyond the almost obligatory set of gestures of a concerto.” Zsolt Hamar
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