Explained. Experienced! | Love Brahms im Wiener Musikverein

About the Event

“There are a few entr'actes lying around—what one usually calls a symphony,” Johannes Brahms wrote with subtle irony to his friend, the conductor Hans von Bülow, from his summer retreat in Mürzzuschlag in 1885. “It tastes like the local climate – the cherries don't get sweet here, you wouldn't eat them!” Of course, Brahms was exaggerating as usual: just think of the radiant E major of the strings in the slow movement or the almost uncontrollable joy in the Allegro giocoso that follows. But there is a grain of truth in his words about his last symphony. The secrets it holds, the ingenious compositional strategies with which this great work looks to the future as well as to the past – these are revealed by the Tonkünstler under the baton of the young German conductor Jascha von der Goltz, together with Albert Hosp.