Wiener Symphoniker / Heras-Casado
Brahms: Symphonien Nr. 1 & 2
Tuesday
10
January
2023
19:30 – ca. 21:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Over waves and cliffs
Johannes Brahms' symphonies have sometimes been described as surveys of
landscapes of the soul. But they were actual and quite different
landscapes in which the elective Viennese designed his four great sound
buildings. He had already spent 14 years working on his first, which he
was unable to complete because of his own high demands and because of
the giant Beethoven, who stood frighteningly behind his shoulders. When
he spent three months on Rügen in 1876, where he made extensive walks
along the chalk coast, he finally succeeded in taking the essential
step. »A beautiful symphony is stuck on the Wissower Klinken«, he wrote
to his publisher. While writing the Second, on the other hand, he was
flooded by a flood of inspiration. As early as the summer of 1877, when
he was staying in Pörtschach on Lake Wörthersee, a letter to a friend
said, »Here the melodies flow so freely that one must be careful not to
step on them.«
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