Wiener Symphoniker 3 - Petr Popelka by Von Weber, Schumann, Larcher, T., From (2024/2024), Conductor Petr Popelka, Bregenzer Festspielhaus, Bregenz, Austria

The Bregenz debut concert of the designated chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony, Petr Popelka, begins at a gallop, pushing forward in an almost knightly manner. But as with Freischütz , Carl Maria von Weber also presents demonic sounds in the overture to the great romantic opera Euryanthe . In Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony, however, you can hear unadulterated joy of life. It didn't get its nickname "Rheinische" from the composer himself, but it refers to the place where it was created, Düsseldorf. Once again, a new work by the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher can be heard for the first time in Bregenz, this time for choir and orchestra, based on texts by the Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji.