Philharmonic at home II “Classical and modern”
ALBAN BERGChamber Concerto for Piano, Violin and 13 Wind Instruments, Op. 8, FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish”
František Novotný violin, Igor Ardašev piano, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Jakub Klecker
• Written for chamber forces, but featuring an intellectual depth and monumentality of sound that makes it essentially a symphonic concerto, Alban Berg’s work was a gift for the fiftieth anniversary of his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg • An emblematic work of the so-called Second Viennese School composed in 1925 and introduced with cryptograms made of the names of the school’s leading figures, Arnold Schoenberg (in the German system of notation, a-d-es-c-h-b-e-g), Alban Berg (a-b-a-b-e-g) and Anton Webern (a-e-b-e) • A composition dogmatically based on the magical number three and its multiplications • Mendelssohn’s famous symphony reflecting the composer’s impressions of travels through Scotland
