Sunday • 22 June 2025 • 3 pm
Staatskapelle Weimar
Simon Gaudenz • conductor
David Castro-Balbi • violine, Alexandre Castro-Balbi • violoncello
Peter Gülke • introduction to the concert in the refectory at 2:15 pm
Gulliaume Du Fay • Nuper rosarum flores / Terribilis est locus iste - Motette zur Einweihung des Florentiner Domes (edited by Peter Gülke)
Johannes Brahms • Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra in A minor op. 102 (1887)
Robert Schumann • Symphony No. 1 in B♭ major op. 38 (1841)
Brahms’s concerto for violin and violoncello was his last symphonic work, written during a stay in Switzerland. Schumann’s First, his entrance to the symphonic genre, is also called “spring symphony”. Newly married to Clara Schumann, he composed it in only four days in January 1841 in what he himself called passionate hours. “I wrote the symphony, if may say so, under the drive of spring which carries all men away up until old age, and captures us every year afresh. To depict, to paint was not my intent. But I do believe that the time when the symphony came to life had an impact on its shape…”
These highly romantic works are preceded by Nuper rosarum flores, a motet written by the Franco-Flemish composer Guillaume Dufay for the inauguration of the Florentine Cathedral, a masterpiece of the Renaissance.
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Discount 4 €