Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra / Hope / Eschenbach
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Daniel Hope’s festival premiere
The exceptional violinist Daniel Hope is giving two concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival this year. »I have never played with the Festival Orchestra before. It’s going to be a very special premiere and I can’t wait! I do, however, have a long musical friendship with Christoph Eschenbach, and working with him is always an inspiring experience. We’re performing Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto, an absolute masterpiece that was composed in 1939. An incredibly virtuosic work with a sobering anti-war agenda: Britten impressively describes the feeling of complete powerlessness in the face of Guernica’s savage destruction during the Spanish Civil War – a very topical theme that we are sadly confronted with again these days«, says the Artist in Residence at this year’s Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
This collaboration between Daniel Hope, the Festival Orchestra and its principal conductor Christoph Eschenbach is complemented by a performance of Anton Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony. The work is not only a demonstration of a unique polyphonic artistry with a moving climax in the finale, but also bears witness to a composer deeply rooted in faith, whose music offers solace and assurance.
Performers
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
Daniel Hope violin
conductor Christoph Eschenbach
Programme
Benjamin Britten
Konzert für Violine und Orchester d-Moll op. 15
– Interval –
Anton Bruckner
Sinfonie Nr. 5 B-Dur