Hordes of music-lovers expected the young Johannes Brahms to produce a symphony, but the composer himself felt half-paralysed by the legacy of his great predecessor Beethoven. After a wait of 22, years he finally produced his Symphony No. 1 in C minor (op. 68), which was universally recognised as a masterpiece. It is said that the melody of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy can be detected in one of the themes of the finale (to which the author himself commented: “Any ass can see that!”). At the start of t...he 1880s, Brahms wrote two contrasting works that recall the theatrical masks of comedy and tragedy: “One laughs while the other cries” – the composer himself said in characterising the two works. The melancholic companion piece of the Academic Festival Overture is the Tragic Overture which, despite its title, is a free-standing single movement without sequel that conveys no specific experience beyond the music itself. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor was dedicated to David Oistrakh. The nocturne that opens the concerto is followed by a demonic scherzo. The slow third movement is a passacaglia in homage to the baroque period, which flows into one of the longest cadenzas in the repertoire before leading into the fourth movement’s whirlwind Burlesque. The work challenges the soloist’s technical abilities and stamina to the utmost, and Oistrakh himself likened the violin part to a Shakespearean role. Presented by: Pannon Philharmonic
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