Organization

Conductor

Eivind Gullberg Jensen

Instrumentalist

Fedor Rudin

Violin

Orchestra

Aarhus Symfoniorkester

I Skyggen Af Skønheden

Aarhus

Denmark

Musikhuset Aarhus

Symfonisk Sal

I Skyggen Af Skønheden: Concert

Public

Academic Festival Overture, op. 80

Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Symphony No.3 in E♭ major, op. 97 ("Rhenish")

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A looming world war meets the resistance of love, carefree academics drink on the fence and hangovers are nurtured in the magnificent scenery of the Rhindale.
Britten's violin concerto was written in the twilight leading up to the Second World War – by a composer who found the clear light of love during the work of writing the concerto. The violin concerto is intense, beautiful and emotionally complex – like an insistent glimmer of hope in the increasingly threatening shadow of the battlefield. It is the virtuoso Baiba Skride who casts her star shine over the concert.

Brahms' Academic Festival Overture , on the other hand, is a noisy and excessive joke, full of extremely unacademic party and balladry. It is a cheerful thank you for a distinguished honor and living proof that composers can also have a sense of humor.

Schumann's love for his new home region around the Rhine radiates from the third symphony. The composer sprinkles himself lavishly with gentle musical memories and leaves us a trail through his own nature and that of the German landscape.

English

En truende verdenskrig mødes med kærlighedens modstand, sorgløse akademikere drikker sig i hegnet og tømmermændene plejes i Rhindalens storslåede natur.
Brittens violinkoncert er skrevet i tusmørket op til anden verdenskrig – af en komponist, der fandt kærlighedens klare lys under arbejdet med at skrive koncerten. Violinkoncerten er intens, smuk og følelsesmæssigt kompleks – som et insisterende glimt af håb i slagmarkens stadig mere truende skygge. Det er virtuosen Baiba Skride, der kaster sin stjerneglans over koncerten.

Brahms’ Akademisk Festouverture er derimod en støjende og overstadig spøg, fuld af yderst uakademisk fest og ballade. Den er en munter tak for en fornem hædersbevisning og et levende bevis på, at komponister også kan have humor.

Schumanns forelskelse i sin nye hjemegn omkring Rhinen stråler ud af den tredje symfoni. Komponisten strør ødselt om sig med milde musikalske minder og efterlader os et spor gennem hans egen og det tyske landskabs natur.

dansk

I Skyggen Af Skønheden by Brahms, Britten, Schumann, From (2023/2023), Conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Musikhuset Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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