Archive: Prokofiev & Schumann

Baden Congress Center Festsaal Congress Center

Instrumentation

  • Amia Janicki, violin
  • Tobias Wögerer, conductor

Programmes

«The kettledrums and trumpets have been sounding within me for some days now (trumpet in C)», wrote Robert Schumann in 1845. The result was his Second Symphony, in which he managed to triumphantly free himself from a psychological crisis by returning to Bach and Beethoven. It was a triumph of the melodic and delicate, by contrast, with which Sergey Prokofiev began his First Violin Concerto, a dreamily shimmering, mercurial virtuoso piece – and one that could have been specially composed for the Swiss-Austrian violinist Amia Janicki. At the start, the young Linz-born star Tobias Wögerer presents Franz Schubert’s overture to the theatre music «Die Zauberharfe» («The Magic Harp»): Dramatic seriousness and song-like melodiousness meet the splendour of Italian opera.

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Franz Schubert

Overture to the Melodrama «Die Zauberharfe» D644

Movements

  • Andante - Allegro vivace

Duration

9 Min.

Creation

1820
Sergej Prokofjew

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major op. 19

Movements

  • Andantino

  • Scherzo. Vivacissimo

  • Finale. Moderato

Duration

23 Min.

Creation

1916/17
Robert Schumann

Symphony No. 2 in C major op. 61

Movements

  • Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo

  • Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio

  • Adagio espressivo

  • Allegro molto vivace

Duration

38 Min.

Creation

1845/46