Philharmonia Orchestra: Dohnányi conducts in London

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Dohnányi conducts in London

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 7 Jun 2012 7:30pm

Christoph von Dohnányi

conductor

Andreas Haefliger

piano

Mendelssohn

Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 4

Brahms

Symphony No. 2

Brahms certainly had a sense of humour: he wrote to his publisher that his Second Symphony was melancholy in tone and that the score must sound like mourning. In fact his Symphony No. 2 is cheerful, lighthearted and picturesquely pastoral in style, with one of Brahms’s friends commenting “Why, it is all blue sky, babbling streams, sunshine, and cool green shade!”. Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is similarly sparkling and lively in its outer movements, though its sombre and etiolated slow movement – widely associated with the image of Orpheus taming the Furies – provides a moment of contrast.

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