Concert
Visiting Orchestras

Bamberger Symphoniker – Jonathan Nott

Past Dates

19:00 Introduction

Bamberger Symphoniker
Jonathan Nott · conductor
Daniel Hope · violin

Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto op. 15 (1839/1958)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
The Shadow of Night (2001)

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung (1891)

19:00 introduction

Harrison Birtwistle’s work starts gloomily, but a great force slowly mounts in the background. The intensity of the music is constantly ratcheted up, resulting in a tonal drama. Here, Richard Strauss’s ebulliently triumphal tone poems appear to be reflected through the experience of the twentieth century. Benjamin Britten’s 1939 violin concerto forms a bridge between these two musical minds.

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Concert Programme

Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto op. 15 (1839/1958)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
The Shadow of Night (2001)

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung (1891)

Cast

Daniel Hope violin

Bamberger Symphoniker
Jonathan Nott conductor