Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Paavo Järvi
Pärt / Bruckner
Musical mystery
Paavo Järvi is well-known to Hamburg audiences as artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. But hitherto he has only appeared once at the Elbphilharmonie with his second orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchester. Now, however, Switzerland’s leading orchestra and its principal conductor make no fewer than three appearances in Hamburg with a weighty programme focusing on Anton Bruckner and his monumental symphonies.
The second evening is devoted to Bruckner’s biggest work of all, the Eighth Symphony, which the composer himself described as his »mystery«. Contemporaries found the monumental score disconcerting, but today it is often referred to as »the crown of 19th century music«. The concert opens with Arvo Pärt’s »Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten«, which the Estonian composer wrote in response to the death of his highly regarded colleague in 1976, and which is often seen as a meditation on death as such.
Performers
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
conductor Paavo Järvi
Programme
Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (second version)
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Paavo Järvi conducts Bruckner