Saturday • 28 June 2025 • 3 pm
Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin
Robert Reimer • conductor
Emanuel Graf • cello
César Franck (1822-1890) • Symphonic poem ‘Le Chasseur Maudit’ (1882)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) • Cello concerto No. 1 in A minor op. 33 (1872)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) • The Swan from: "The Carnival of the Animals" (1886)
César Franck (1822-1890) •3rd Symphony in D minor (1886-1888)
Music from FranceCésar Franck und Camille Saint-Saëns contributed crucially to the revival of symphonic music and poetry in France, even beyond their lifetimes.
With Le chasseur maudit (The Wild Hunter), César Franck created a showpiece of programme music, based on the eponymous ballad by Gottfried August Bürger. A wild hunter, after being cursed, rides across the country at night, followed by an entourage of dead people. In his Symphony in D minor, Franck joins Brahms and Dvořák in rethinking post-Beethoven symphonic music.
Any performance of the Concerto No. 1 for violoncello and orchestra makes it clear that Camille Saint-Saens cannot be reduced to his Carnival of the Animals. It has made its way into concert life as a classical piece of cello literature, despite the composer’s own aesthetic standpoint that “music exists in its own right, independently of any kind of emotion”.
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