Jaap van Zweeden © Brad Trent
Wiener Symphoniker / van Zweden
Brahms: Symphonien Nr. 3 & 4
Sunday
26
February
2023
11:00 – ca. 13:00
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
»Every movement a jewel«
»What a work, what poetry, the most harmonious mood through the whole,
all movements as if from one cast, a heartbeat, each movement a jewel!«
Clara Schumann was delighted with the Third of her friend Johannes
Brahms. Like the previous symphonies, he had completed it during his
summer retreat, this time in Wiesbaden in 1883. Critics and colleagues
also received the work enthusiastically. His last symphony was also
written in summer, in 1884 and 1885 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria. Brahms
crowns his symphonic work in the last movement with a passacaglia that
he varies thirty times - thus returning to the form of variation that he
so valued.