10 Oct 2019, Glasgow City Halls
BBC SSO 2019-20 Season Afternoon Performance: Schumann Cello Concerto
Afternoon Performance: Schumann Cello Concerto
To open the new series of 'Afternoon Performance' concerts at City Halls, German cellist Johannes Moser performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto.
To open the new series of 'Afternoon Performance' concerts at City Halls, German cellist Johannes Moser performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto.
Performers
Alexander Vedernikovconductor
Concert Information
Beneath the gorgeous surface of the Romantic era ions ran deep, and a simple dance rhythm could be enough to set pulses racing and hearts pounding. Weber’s ‘Invitation to the Dance’ begins with quiet courtesy, but in Berlioz’s silken, bejewelled orchestration it positively whirls you off your feet. Brahms, meanwhile, starts his First Piano Quartet with three movements of controlled and mellow emotion, before suddenly cutting loose in the wildest, craziest folk-dance he ever wrote. Arnold Schoenberg loved this piece, and his uproariously entertaining orchestral version doesn’t stint on either colour or panache. You simply have to hear it performed live, and that goes double when regular BBC SSO guest conductor Alexander Vedernikov s the distinguished German cellist Johannes Moser in Schumann’s Cello Concerto. For Moser, Schumann is “a poet”, whose deeply expressive music speaks to him in “beautiful vowels and consonants”. This underrated concerto comes straight from the heart of one of music’s most ardent spirits – and Moser speaks its language as a native.
The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
