Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig / Chailly / Brahms Cycle

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Symphony no. 4 in E minor, Op.98

Performers

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly	Conductor
Leonidas Kavakos	Violin

Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is the most spiritual of his orchestral scores – the supreme achievement of his quest to wed discipline and emotion. This piece ends the orchestra's cycle of the composers symphonies and is joined by the only one of Brahms’s concertos that shares that autumnal poise, those golden-browns of resignation and the symphonic breadth that communicates everything Brahms held dear. Leonidas Kavakos joins the orchestra for this poignant conclusion to its four-concert portrait of the most exquisite craftsman ever to write for orchestra.

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£15-65

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Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra bring their Barbican Brahms cycle to an end

George Slater-Walker, 1st November

I sat down to hear the last concert of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s Brahms cycle under Riccardo Chailly at the Barbican with high hopes. Having heard the hype, it seemed that the restrained autumnal shades of the Violin Concerto in D major (with superstar Leonidas Kavakos) and the sheer compositional majesty of the Symphony no.

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