Bremer Philharmoniker

Hayoung Choi, cello
Bremer Philharmoniker
Bar Avni, conductor

PROGRAMME
Bach: Passacaglia und Fuge c-Moll BWV 582 für großes Orchester gesetzt von Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Lutosławski: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester (1970)
Tchaikovsky: Symphonie Nr. 6 h-Moll op. 74 „Pathétique“ (1893)

VENUE NOTE:
The Israeli conductor Bar Avni and the South Korean cellist Hayoung Choi bring girl power to the podium – with a programme that brings out everything an orchestra has to offer. Bach kicks things off, but not in the way we know it: Ottorino Respighi takes the famous Passacaglia to a new level, orchestrating it large, majestic, with new colours and shades. Then Witold Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto! Not a classical solo concerto, but a dramatic duel, orchestra against soloist, including attacks, lyrical moments, explosive sound eruptions. A musical exchange of blows in which every note is under high tension. And finally: Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique. His last work – and probably his most personal. Nine days after the premiere, he died under mysterious circumstances. The last movement sounds like a requiem: deeply sad, gloomy, poignant. More drama is not possible.