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Alan Gilbert describes Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 as a “musical autobiography” – a work shaped both by the composer’s love for his wife Clara and by his artistic model, Johann Sebastian Bach. Schumann combines dense contrapuntal writing with irresistibly intimate melodies. Brett Dean, this season’s Composer in Residence, has called his Violin Concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing a “pretty tricky piece” – tailor-made for Isabelle Faust’s precision and clarity. The work sounds sensuous yet fragile, a nostalgic evocation of a world in which people still wrote letters.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Alan Gilbert conductor
Isabelle Faust violin
Programme
Brett Dean
The Lost Art of Letter Writing for violin and orchestra
Isabelle Faust violin
Interval
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C major, op. 61
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours (incl. 20 minutes interval)
Dates and tickets
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
19:15
Series K: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
19:15
Series L: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
28 to 89 €
Introduction
18:15
Series N: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
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