Ideally, every tension should ultimately resolve into harmony. And so, under the motto »Multitudes«, the Hamburg Camerata concludes its season with a program full of synthesis: A Sturm und Drang symphony by former Hamburg music director Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – a stirring work marking the transition from Baroque to Classical – meets Mozart’s serene final piano concerto.
Described as the crowning achievement of his oeuvre, Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein once rhapsodized that this »late work« stands »at the gates of heaven, before the threshold of eternity«. Severin von Eckardstein, the evening’s soloist, then takes the audience on a journey of his own – alone at the piano – as he evokes the memories Felix Mendelssohn brought back from a trip through Wales. And once more, this solo tension gives way to collective harmony: in Mendelssohn’s precocious Symphony No. 8, written in his youth, the strings and winds of the Hamburg Camerata come together in a consummate synthesis.
PERFORMERS
Hamburger Camerata orchestra
Severin von Eckardstein piano
Vilmantas Kaliunas conductor
PROGRAM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sinfonie F-Dur WQ 181
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, KV 595
- Interval -
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices op. 16
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Streichersinfonie Nr. 8 D-Dur
