Brahms by Wagner, Brahms, Sibelius, Bartók, Mon 19 Jun 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Olari Elts, Capitol Theater Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

Music comes from nature. And she is like nature: inspiration and challenge, comfort and deception, beauty and magic. For Wagner's Siegfried, the forest and birdsong set the course for his path. Brahms' Violin Concerto breathes the alpine air in which it was written as majestically as it is fragile. In the fairy tale of the wooden prince, the forest becomes a creature of change that plays its bizarre game with the lovers: it tests and mocks, comforts and reconciles. And in the end, Bartók makes the music as natural as possible: the work closes with a longing melody on the French horn. Which Brahms was particularly fond of, by the way.