Hessischer Rundfunk

A Brahms of today must sound fresh, agile, "without a beard" - this is the ideal of Alain Altinoglu, who continues his Brahms cycle with the 3rd Symphony. And who cleverly integrates this sunny symphony into a program of Brahms-Haydn relationships with a performance by the award-winning hr solo trumpeter Sebastian Berner.

The "Third" is an unusually bright, even sunny work; Clara Schumann spoke of a symphonic forest idyll. The chief conductor of the hr-Sinfonieorchester says that an orchestra must treat it all the more delicately: "Transparency is more important than opulence", is how he sums it up. Brahms with classical virtues. And Brahms himself was also very classically oriented when he composed his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn", although the source material was probably not by Haydn after all. Guaranteed Haydn, on the other hand: his trumpet concerto, one of his most popular works, with Sebastian Berner as the soloist. The solo trumpeter of the hr-Sinfonieorchester won first prize at the International Maurice André Competition in Paris in 2022 - with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto as the final piece.

Photo: Ben Knabe

22.5., 8 pm (concert introduction at 7 pm in the Great Hall)

Alte Oper, Opernplatz 1, Frankfurt

50 % discount: price category 1 = 65 €, price category 2 = 54 € for 2 tickets

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