NDR Chamber Music Recital

Brahms

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This concert has already taken place! 22 | 36 | 48
Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert © Peter Hundert
Christopher Franzius / Roland Greutter
Christopher Franzius / Roland Greutter © Gunther Glücklich
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • End ca. 21:20

Description

When Alan Gilbert takes up his position as its new principal conductor, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra marks the occasion with three intensive weeks full of music. With six exciting and many-faceted programmes, Gilbert forges links between tradition and modernity, between the Old and the New World, between musicians and the audience. In this chamber concert he picks up the viola himself: in Brahms’s two string sextets.

As a young pianist and composer, Brahms was looking for an instrumental genre where tradition hadn’t yet left too great a mark. And he was lucky! The deputy head of music at publisher Simrock bought the rights to Brahms’s First String Sextet against his father’s will, and landed a surprise hit. Incidentally the first performance was given by an ensemble led by a friend of the composer’s, the violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim.

Performers

Stefan Wagner violin

Rodrigo Reichel violin

Alan Gilbert viola

Jan Larsen viola

Andreas Grünkorn violoncello

Christopher Franzius violoncello

Programme

Johannes Brahms
Streichsextett Nr. 1 B-Dur op. 18
Streichsextett Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 36

Festival

Sounds like Gilbert

Promoter: NDR

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