It’s always worth taking a second look! Benjamin Britten’s Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra is among the late rediscoveries of this remarkably productive composer. He wrote it in the spring of 1932 while still a student at the Royal College of Music in London.
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First performed posthumously in 1997, it is presented here by Music Director James Gaffigan, who uses it to showcase the orchestra’s outstanding soloists. He pairs it with a late work by a contemporary, Dmitri Shostakovich, whose fifteenth and final symphony reflects an artistic life shaped by the double game played with Soviet cultural politics. Here, the composer casts a sardonic glance back at music history, quoting from Wagner’s Ring, Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, and even himself.
Gaffigan then reaches further back still with one of his personal favourites: a ballet piece composed by Mozart in 1781 as a festive epilogue to Idomeneo – music now rarely heard in the concert hall and even less so on the operatic stage.
Program
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756–1791]Ballet music for the opera Idomeneo, KV 367 (excerpts)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN [1913–1976]Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH [1906–1975]Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141
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Participating artists
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin (Orchester)
James Gaffigan (Musikalische Leitung)
Gabriel Adorján (Violine)
Friedemann Slenczka (Viola)
Dates
April 2027
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