Name: Klaus Mäkelä with Schumann in Vienna and Hamburg
Start: 2025-03-30
End: 2025-03-30
Location: Musikverein

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Klaus Mäkelä

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Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle Hamburg

Instrumentalist

Julian Rachlin

Violin

Klaus Mäkelä with Schumann in Vienna and Hamburg

Vienna

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Großer Saal

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Germany

Elbphilharmonie

Klaus Mäkelä with Schumann in Vienna and Hamburg: Offertorium Gubaidulina (+2 More)

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Offertorium, for Violin and Orchestra

Symphony No. 4 in D Minor op. 120

Spiri III: Sacred Ritual

Samabedona Majumder

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From the first notes, the Fourth Symphony carries us away into Schumann’s utterly original world of dark romanticism. ‘Robert Schumann is the romantic composer’, says conductor Klaus Mäkelä. ‘His symphonies contain such wonderful moments. It always makes me feel good to play them. His music fills your heart with joy and sadness – the emotions are very pure and honest. Schumann makes me happy; he makes me a better person.’  

His romantic musical language notwithstanding, Schumann was a great admirer of the early music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The famous Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina also shows her indebtedness to the Baroque master, as in her much-praised Offertorium. The concert opens with a newly commissioned work by the successful Korean Seung-Won Oh. The final piece of her Spiri trilogy, Spiri III ‘seeks to transform the transient nature of human affection, and expand and enhance it to the next level’, the composer says. ‘Rather than limiting the view of the flower blooming and withering to a local event, we can contextualize this minute event as the beginning of a perpetual cycle that can't be measured or truly experienced by humans.’  

Spiri III by Seung-won Oh was written with financial support from the Fonds Podiumkunsten.

English

Klaus Mäkelä with Schumann in Vienna and Hamburg by Gubaidulina, Schumann, Seung-Won Oh, Sun 30 Mar 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

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