Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Patrick Hahn

Classical music with a wink

Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto was to be the last instrumental concerto he wrote – a large-scale orchestral work, full of musical maturity and enchanting beauty. Tonight’s guest with the Philharmonic State Orchestra is Reinhold Friedrich, who has gained a reputation as a "god of the trumpet«. In Shostakovich’s Double Concerto for Piano and Trumpet, he can be heard alongside the Croatian-Italian pianist Martina Filjak. Just as Shostakovich caricatures the classical concerto in his own work, Prokofiev’s First Symphony can be seen as an affectionate parody of the style of Haydn and of the young Tchaikovsky. The concert comes to a close with a piece of true Classicism: Mozart’s Symphony No. 39.