The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Akiko Suwanai / Paavo Järvi

• Classical Music

Very different worlds encounter each other in this concert. What luck that the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is just as well known for its energetic music-making as for its versatility! Together with principal conductor Paavo Järvi, the musicians dive into the humorous and high-energy music of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and between them let violinist Akiko Suwanei shine with the unconventional and dramatic violin concerto by Antonín Dvorák.

Probably no other violin concerto has a similarly rousing entry in which orchestra and solo violin immediately begin an impassioned dialogue. The rest of the work is also fascinating with a combination of innovative ideas and catchy Slavic melodies.

Compared with this heated world of expression, the music of Haydn acts like a witty conversation among good friends and so forms the elegant start of an evening rich in contrast. The concert ends with the final symphony by Haydn’s friend and artistic rival Mozart. The two of them provided a life-long musical rivalry and motivated each other to top compositional performances. You can hear the results: Mozart’s »Jupiter« Symphony is just brimming with joie de vivre as a result and was even hailed as the »greatest triumph in instrumental composition« in London. What a finale!

PERFORMERS

Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen orchestra

Akiko Suwanai violin

Paavo Järvi conductor

PROGRAM

Joseph Haydn
Symphony in G major, Hob. I:94 »Surprise«

Antonín Dvoák
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 53

- Interval -

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony in C major, KV 551 »Jupiter«