PERFORMERS

ORQUESTRA SIMFÒNICA DE BARCELONA I NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA
Pablo González, conductor
Viviane Hagner   , violí, violin

WORKS

WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde (prelude and the death of Isolde)
SIBELIUS: Concerto for violin and orchestra
FRANCK: Symphony in D minor

Acclaimed German violinist Viviane Hagner will be appearing before OBC audiences for the first time performing the well-known concerto for violin and orchestra by Jean Sibelius, a highly technically complex work in which the composer displays his mastery of this headline instrument. The work, composed in 1903, is one of the challenges for any soloist violinist. The northern romanticism of this work is complemented by Wagner's more passionate and yet transcendental piece: Tristan and Isolde, in which love and death become one with the death of Isolde. César Franck's Symphony in D minor should be placed in a context of complete symphonic transformation in France, together with composers such as Saint-Saëns, Lalo and Indy. The work is a testimony to this breath of fresh air that romanticism taken to the limit imposed on classical forms and that, in the case of Franck, is highly influenced by the German masters, such as Beethoven and Wagner.