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In Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, the Berliner Philharmoniker can explore the full spectrum of music-making, from intimacy in chamber music passages to its characteristically powerful tutti sound. Like Bruckner’s work, Mendelssohn’s violin concerto also emerged from the Romantic period – yet it inhabits a completely different sound world, filled with light and radiance. Conductor Marek Janowski is particularly highly regarded for his work in this repertoire. Augustin Hadelich, celebrated for his wonderfully lyrical sound at his debut three years ago, returns to the Berliner Philharmoniker as soloist.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Marek Janowski conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, op. 64
Augustin Hadelich violin
Interval
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series A: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series C: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
18:15
Series N: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
“The only person who can save me”
Arthur Nikisch as Bruckner’s trailblazer
Arthur Nikisch was an impassioned admirer of Anton Bruckner at a time when the composer was still struggling to find recognition. The conductor championed the composer’s music, his advocacy proving as successful as it was enthusiastic. By conducting the world premiere of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, Nikisch helped the composer to achieve his breakthrough.
Biographies
Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski has won international acclaim for his interpretations of the German Romantic repertoire. He has also left his mark on European orchestral culture through his consistent work with lesser-known ensembles, shaping them into top international orchestras. Janowski brings a sharp precision and a wealth of colour to his interpretations, and has been repeatedly praised for the transparency and excitement of his concerts. In addition to his focus on Wagner, which brings him regularly to major international opera houses, he is also regarded as an outstanding interpreter of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Strauss and Robert Schumann. His personal view of Robert Schumann's music has evolved, and Janowski says that he now looks “less and less for emotional exuberance,” and more “for musical clarity of line”.
From his beginnings as an assistant conductor and Kappelmeister, Janowski’s artistic career took him to Freiburg and Dortmund, among other places. He later conducted the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne and developed the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France into one of France’s top orchestras, before leading the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo to a high position in the international orchestral landscape. After three years with the Dresden Philharmonic, Marek Janowski was chief conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin from 2002 to 2016. He returned to the Dresden Philharmonic as chief conductor and artistic director for the 2019/20 season.
Augustin Hadelich
“Ask Augustin” – with his online tutorials, in which he gives tips on intonation, vibrato, bowing and overcoming stage fright, Augustin Hadelich became a YouTube star in professional circles during the coronavirus pandemic. In real life, the violinist had long been a celebrity. The son of German parents, he grew up on a vineyard in Italy – without a television or computer games. ”It taught me to concentrate on one thing at a time,” he explains. By “one thing”, Augustin Hadelich means playing the violin, which he began at the age of five, soon winning acclaim as a child prodigy.
In 1999, he suffered such serious injuries in a fire that his further development as a musician seemed jeopardised. Instead of giving up, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and won the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2006. This was his ticket to international concert life, where he soon made a mark with his precise technique and personal creativity. As Hadelich explains, he approaches his playing from the perspective of a chamber musician, even when playing major violin concertos. “Basically, I have to listen, lead and communicate with the conductor and the musicians in the same way as in chamber music,” he explains. Augustin Hadelich, who made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2021 with Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, has been playing a 1744 violin by Guaneri del Gesù since 2020.
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