To the Memory of an Angel
Alban Berg’s violin concerto is neither harsh nor cold; on the contrary, it is a powerful and moving work with a striking sadness and sensitivity. Then again, he wrote it ”to the memory of an angel”, a painful echo of emptiness. In contrast: Brahms’s animated, almost exuberant third symphony. It was written when Brahms was fifty years of age and unmarried, but is imbued with the life motto of the forthright Brahms “Frei aber froh”, free but happy.
This production is part of one or more concert series.
UPBEAT: Thursday, January 23 at 6 pm with Pernilla Eskilsdotter, who talks about the second of the three concerts she has chosen for her own concert series, a selection made with curiosity and love. Before this concert she talks about how she herself interprets that an angel is heard in a violin concerto.
UPBEAT: Saturday 25 January at 14.00 with Tanja Kaitaniemi who tells about the works being played at today’s concert.
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