“Full of brilliance, fire, and poetry, and filled with enchanting details” — this is how Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky described the overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz after hearing it. In this foundational work of German Romanticism, the hunting horns and the darker orchestral colors already suggest an encounter between nature and the supernatural world.
Nature also appears in Robert Schumann’s introspective and deeply reflective Cello Concerto, performed at this concert by László Fenyő, renowned for his energetic and instinctive playing.
In the second half of the evening, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 will be performed, a work clearly inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fate” Symphony. The concert will be conducted by one of the most outstanding young conducting talents, Nátán Sugár, a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and assistant to the chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
Photo: Nátán Sugár © László Emmer
Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz – Overture
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
