Bamberger Symphoniker / Jakub Hrůša
Dvořák / Ligeti / Brahms
Musical affinities
Two last symphonies by two kindred souls: in the last few years, Jakub Hrůša and his Bamberg Symphony Orchestra have made an intensive study of the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák, and the outcome was their acclaimed double album with Brahms’s Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth symphonies.
Both works are in the key of E minor, yet they come from completely different worlds: the Dvořák comes from the »New World«, i.e. America, where the composer went to take up his appointment as director of the New York Conservatoire, and found new inspiration in his contact with ragtime, gospels and Native American melodies. The result is without a doubt his best-known symphony, which combines to brilliant effect these new influences with elements of classical symphonic tradition and his own individual musical style, forged by his Bohemian origins.
Performers
Bamberger Symphoniker
conductor Jakub Hrůša
Programme
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 »From the New World«
– Interval –
György Ligeti
Poème symphonique für 100 Metronome
Johannes Brahms
Sinfonie Nr. 4 e-Moll op. 98
Zugaben des Orchesters:
Antonín Dvořák
Walzer A-Dur op. 54/1
Allegro aus: Suite A-Dur op. 98b
