Brahms 3 by Brahms, Haydn, Dj. 22 Maig 2025, De (2025/2025), Director musical Alain Altinoglu, Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

A Brahms of today must sound fresh, agile, »without a beard« - –this is the ideal of Alain Altinoglu, who continues his Brahms cycle with the Symphony No. 3. And he cleverly integrates this sunny symphony into a program of Brahms-Haydn relationships with a performance by the award-winning hr solo trumpeter. The »Third« is an unusually bright, even sunny work; Clara Schumann spoke of a symphonic forest idyll. The Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony says that an orchestra must treat it all the more delicately: »Transparency is more important than opulence«, is how he sums it up. Brahms with classical virtues. And Brahms himself was also very classically oriented when he composed his »Variations on a Theme by Haydn«, although the source material was probably not by Haydn after all. Guaranteed Haydn, on the other hand: his Trumpet Concerto, one of his most popular works, with Sebastian Berner as the soloist. The solo trumpeter of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony won first prize at the International Maurice André Competition in Paris in 2022 – with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto as the final piece.