Philharmonia Orchestra: Dohnányi conducts Schumann

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Dohnányi conducts Schumann

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 2 Dec 2010 7:30pm

Christoph von Dohnányi

conductor

Arabella Steinbacher

violin

Weber

Overture, Der Freischutz

Schumann

Symphony No. 1

Brahms

Violin Concerto

This evening’s concert is supported by The Meyer Foundation

This evening’s concert is supported by The Meyer Foundation

Like his friend and protégé Brahms, Schumann delayed writing his first symphony for many years, too in awe of Beethoven to imagine composing in the same form. But in 1841, after discovering Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, he took courage, and composed the Spring symphony, an exuberant work that remains one of his most popular. In this evening’s concert it is paired with Brahms’s own great Violin Concerto, written almost 40 years later, and the overture to Weber’s most well-loved opera, Der Freischütz.