Bruch’s Violin Concerto

Live at the BBC Proms: Omer Meir Wellber conducts the Bremen orchestra playing Haydn & Robert Schumann, with Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich joining them for Bruch's concerto.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, ‘Trauer’
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor

c.8.15pm
Interval: Jessica Duchen looks at the two versions of Robert Schumann's Fourth Symphony and what they tell us about his approach to orchestral writing.

c.8.35pm
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor (rev. version, 1851)

Daniel Lozakovich, violin
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, written at the height of his fame in Europe, embodies the bracing rhythms, lyrical melodies and dramatic silences typical of the ‘Storm and Stress’ movement, with its nickname – ‘Trauer’ or ‘Mourning’ – arising from the suggestion that he requested its serene slow movement be played at his funeral. Max Bruch evoked the heyday of Romanticism in his lush, ever-popular First Violin Concerto; young Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich returns following his acclaimed Proms debut in 2022. Sketched out in less than a week during a period of white-hot inspiration in 1841, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is the outgoing, extroverted complement to his calmer, recently completed ‘Spring’ Symphony. Omer Meir Wellber, a former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts one of Europe’s leading orchestras.