Webern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorenzo Viotti
Audio recording from the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein from 30 April 2019.
Lorenzo Viotti returned to Vienna for the Webern Symphony Orchestra's annual subscription concert at the Musikverein: in 2011, he had performed with the WSO himself. Since then, he has won several awards, delighted critics and audiences alike and worked with major orchestras and at important venues in just a few years. It was exciting to see how Viotti would shape the exciting program around the Passacaglia by the orchestra's namesake.
Anton Webern's op. 1, the “Gesellenstück” at the end of his apprenticeship with Arnold Schönberg, is followed by La Valse, Maurice Ravel's homage to Vienna, his waltzes, but also the atrocities of the First World War. In the first part of the concert, Johannes Brahms' 3rd Symphony is performed at the place of its premiere, about which Clara Schumann praised: “What a work, what poetry ... Every movement a jewel!”
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Symphony Nr.3 in F major op.90
- 1. Allegro con brio
- 1. Andante
- 3. Poco Allegretto
- 4. Allegro
Anton Webern
Passacaglia for Orchestra op.1
Maurice Ravel
La Valse - Poème chorégraphique pour orchestre
Participants
Lorenzo Viotti (Conductor)
Webern Symphony Orchestra
Audio production: Philip Pohl, Johannes Zlanabitnig