Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme of Haydn” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”...

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s a Deutsche Welle Festival Concert from Cologne featuring the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Cristian Macelaru in Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme of Haydn”. Also on the program Patricia Kopatchinskaja is the soloist in Marton Illes’ “Violin Concerto”.

Thursday June 11: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (DWF 2019-24)

Music of our Times

Location: Cologne Philharmonie (1,2,3)
West German Radio Hall, Cologne (4,5)
Performed by: West German Radio Symphony Orchestra (1-xx)
Conductor: Cristian Macelaru (1,2,3); Michael Wendeberg (4,5)
Soloists: Ray Chen, violin (2); Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin (4)
(1) BRAHMS: Variations in B-flat Major on a theme by Joseph Haydn, op. 56a (18:21)
(2) WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, op. 14, 1st and 3rd movements (23:10)
(3) R. STRAUSS: Suite from the opera Der Rosenkavalier (23:30)
(4) Márton ILLÉS (b. 1985, Hungary): Violin concerto (world premiere) (19:07)
(5) Beat FURRER 9B. 1954, Switzerland; Austrian): Phaos for orchestra (2006) (15:53)