Berliner Philharmoniker
Sakari Oramo Conductor
Isabelle Faust Violin
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Photoptosis
Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D minor
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C major
Introductory presentation 7 p.m.
At first sight these two composers don’t seem to have much in common. Their lifetimes seem too far apart, too different the circumstances in which they composed their works, and their worlds of sound. However, when we look and listen more closely, parallels between both composers appear: on the one hand there is the great Romantic, Robert Schumann, with his proverbial erratic nature, swaying between ecstatic joy and deepest sadness, on the other the exponent of New Music, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, with his radically eruptive, dramatic sound, in short: both composers manifested extremely espressivo music, both were sensualists of sound, differing in the form given to their enormous degree of expression. An exciting juxtaposition. And exciting musicians – not just at first sight.
