Music
The Berlin Philharmonic: The Digital Concert Hall

6th Concert 2018

Mon, 06/04/2018
12:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Paavo Järvi and Janine Jansen with Sibelius’s Violin Concerto

Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Soloist: Janine Jansen

Jean Sibelius
Night Ride and Sunrise, Symphonic Poem, op. 55

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Janine Jansen, Violin

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54

Following the Sibelius concerto, whose prominent violin part belongs unmistakably to the Romantic concerto tradition, the programme continues with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, a work which received rapturous applause even at its Leningrad premiere on 5 November 1939. At one of the subsequent performances, the audience was so enthusiastic that the finale was even repeated. It is no surprise that this Mahler-influenced work (whose music, like Till Eulenspiegel and Petrushka, repeatedly takes a menacing turn) was included immediately in Leopold Stokowski’s repertoire: “In each of his symphonies, Shostakovich proves himself to be a master who was constantly growing in creative imagination and musical self-confidence. He reaches new heights in his Symphony No. 6.”