This concert evening focuses on Viennese Classicism and Romanticism and highlights their relationship to Turkish music – both past and present! The programme centres on Anton Bruckner’s String Quintet in F major, composed and premiered in Vienna. The work itself reflects Bruckner’s sophisticated harmonies and formal depth, embedded in the Viennese chamber music tradition of the late 19th century. On the other hand, like the master’s great symphonies, this quintet is imbued with Bruckner’s mysticism of nature and Catholic religiosity. According to Bruckner biographer Mathias Hansen, it seems »like a faithful echo of Bruckner’s symphonies, played by a Mahlerian distant orchestra.« It therefore makes sense that the work is being performed in a version for chamber orchestra in today’s concert.
The broad arc between the two poles of Vienna and Turkey on this concert evening is formed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto, the so-called »Turkish Concerto«. As a representative of the so-called »Viennese Classical« period, Mozart reflects in the rondo movement in the »alla Turca« style the stylised imitation of Ottoman military sounds that was popular in Europe at the time, rather than authentic Turkish music in the ethnomusical sense; he demonstrates Mozart’s creative integration of the »exotic« sound ideal of his time. However, authentic Turkish music can be heard right at the beginning of the concert in the world premiere of the diptych »Dialogs with Schlenker« by siblings Ayşe and Ümit Önder from Istanbul.
PERFORMERS
Kammerphilharmonie Hamburg ensemble
Anton Barakhovsky violin
Arndt Auhagen conductor
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A major, KV 219
Ümit Önder, Ayşe Önder
Dialogs with Schlenker
- Interval -
Anton Bruckner
String Quintet for two violins, two violas and violoncello in F major
