Thinking of forests in the finale of Mendelssohn’s immortally beautiful Violin Concerto in E minor is a real recommendation inasmuch as the fairies, will-o’-the-wisps and kind-hearted gnomes romping about in it are comparatively harmless creatures. Composed between 1838 and 1844 for his friend Ferdinand David, concertmaster of Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester, it was intended to be a brilliant piece (»stilo moltissimo concertantissimo«). Mendelssohn joked back that the soloist’s entire first movement would consist of a single high E. In the end, the two Hamburg natives were extremely happy with the result.
PERFORMERS
Symphoniker Hamburg orchestra
Veronika Eberle violin
Han-Na Chang conductor
PROGRAM
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture from »Der Freischütz«, Op. 77
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64
- Interval -
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
