Con fuoco: Igor Levit und die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 30 May 2018

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Berlin on 29 May 2018

Schubert, Overture in D major "in the Italian style", D.590

Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Op.40

Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.25

Schubert, Six moments musicaux, D.780 no. 6 in A flat major Allegretto (Zugabe)

Schubert, Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, D.485

Schubert, Rosamunde, D.797: Interlude no.2 (Zugabe)

Florian Donderer, Violin

Igor Levit, Piano

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Ben Goldscheider plays new Watkins concerto with DKam

Clare Varney, 8th June

The French horn is the real winner in Bremen as Ben Goldscheider continues to expand the horn repertoire and bring his instrument to a wider audience.

****1

Schubert that doesn't sing? Paavo Järvi and DKam at the Elbphi

Alexander Hall, 10th April

Veronika Eberle shows why the Brahms violin concerto is one of the mainstays of the repertory, whereas Paavo Järvi doesn't quite tap into the unique voice of Schubert successfully.

***11

Järvi and Kammerphilharmonie Bremen bring Haydn to Tokyo Opera City

Nahoko Gotoh, 8th December

Three Haydn symphonies grace the bill in Järvi's onging project which started in earnest last year in Vienna.

****1

Fire and fizz at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 31st March

Jump-in concerts can occasionally advance career prospects. Jonathan Bloxham with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen demonstrated the lightness of Mendelssohn in C minor but seriously underplayed the darkness of Schubert in B minor.

***11

A message of consolation 150 years on

Alexander Hall, 10th April

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of its first performance, Paavo Järvi directs the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Brahms' Requiem, with the Latvian State Choir and two outstanding soloists.

***11

Järvi's Brahms lights up the Aix Easter Festival

Mark Valencia, 6th April

Aimez-vous Brahms? For anyone who thought they didn’t, this sharp, disciplined band will have made converts.

****1

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Con fuoco: Igor Levit und die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Berlin