Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester / Christian Tetzlaff / Sebastian Beckedorf

• Classical Music

The Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra is celebrating its 50th anniversary with this special concert. It is a great honour for the orchestra to have a real world star as a soloist for this occasion: Christian Tetzlaff, who also played in the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra as a teenager.
In the course of his international career, Christian Tetzlaff has performed with all the major orchestras,
including the Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam
and all the London orchestras. He has worked with legendary maestri such as Sergiu Celibidache,
Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur and Christoph von Dohnányi.

Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto still occupies an outstanding position in the literature of violin concertos. It was completed in 1878 and dedicated to the famous violinist Joseph
Joachim, who assisted Brahms in writing the solo part. The première
was a year later in Leipzig under Brahms’ direction and with Joseph Joachim on the violin.

Four years before Brahms’ violin concerto, the operetta »Die Fledermaus« was composed in 1874 by Johann
Strauss (son). The overture is a brilliant compilation of the most beautiful melodies from the operetta. Cheerful with bubbling energy on the one hand and on the other hand a highly
highly demanding work that requires great virtuosity from the orchestra.

The opera »Der Rosenkavalier« was premiered in 1911 and is a masterful blend of comedy and romance. Richard Strauss combined all the highlights of the opera into a purely
orchestral suite, in which the audience hears, among other things, the prelude to the first act,
the presentation of the roses and the touching final tercet from the third act. The tumultuous
Viennese waltz with which Baron Ochs leaves the bar is, of course, included.

PERFORMERS

Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester orchestra

Christian Tetzlaff violin

Sebastian Beckedorf director

PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 77

- Interval -

Johann Strauß (Sohn)
Ouvertüre zu »Die Fledermaus«

Richard Strauss
Suite aus »Der Rosenkavalier« op. 59