Name: Symphonic Concert
Start: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera Wrocławska

Organization

Conductor

Bassem Akiki

Opera Wrocławska

Orchestra

The Academic Symphonic Orchestra

Symphonic Concert

Wrocław

Poland

Symphonic Concert: Concert Various

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Concert

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• Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is the composer's last work. He wrote it in 1884-1885 in Mürzzuschlag in the Alps. Brahms, in a letter to Hans von Bülow, compared his latest symphony to the Alpine climate in this way: "I'm afraid it smacks of the local climate - the cherries don't turn sweet. You would never touch them." This was related to the fear of accepting a new work. Even Eduard Hanslick, a great enthusiast of Brahms' work at the time, had mixed feelings after studying the score, writing: "You know, I feel as if two monster-intellectuals tanned my skin", and after listening to the symphony, in his review he called it "a dark well" and he added, "The longer we stare at its bottom, the brighter the stars reflect in it." The premiere of the work took place under the composer's direction in 1885 in Meiningen, where Richard Strauss was also present. The audience reacted extremely - from reluctance to great admiration. History, however, has shown that the unique Brahmsian musical language, combining Baroque music patterns with classical forms in the spirit of Romanticism, attracts the attention of music lovers up to the present day.

• In 1872, Georges Bizet was asked to write music for a play by a writer in love with Provence, Alphonse Daudet, titled The Arlesian. The composer undertook this task and soon a composition was created, consisting of a set of 27 miniatures for a small orchestra and choir. The libretto tells the story of two brothers - the foolish Innocent and Fréderi, who are madly in love with a girl named Arles (who never appears in the play) - without reciprocity. Unable to cope with the lust that consumes him, he throws himself out of the window of the building into the street where the farandola resounds. A year after the opera's unsuccessful premiere, Bizet decided to compose a suite for orchestra based on it, which was a huge success almost immediately. In turn, after the composer's death, his friend Ernest Guiraud created a second suite from the remaining fragments of Arlesiana, using sketches left by Bizet, e.g. including the famous Farandola.

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Symphonic Concert by Various, From (2023/2023), Conductor Bassem Akiki, Opera Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland

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