Pannon Philharmonic

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About the Programme

We could define the concert’s program with the awakening XIX century title, if it did not begin with Hindemith’s work. Although, the Symphonic Metamorphosis On Themes by Weber, composed in 1943, conjures the spirit of the composer of Clarinet Concerto in the second song. Hindemith invokes and covers four themes in four movements in his work, from the less known works of Carl Maria von Weber. He took the musical matter of the first, third and fourth movements from his piano duets (All’ Ongarese), the second movement recalls the intermezzo for Schiller’s Turandot. The themes go through unique ‘transformations’ to appear in the grand form of the four-movement orchestra, typical for classical symphonies. Then comes the conjured: F-minor Clarinet Concerto of Carl Maria von Weber. Its composer especially pays much attention to the virtuoso instrumental works in the beginning of his career. When he writes his Concertino in the spring of 1811 for Baermann, a clarinet artist friend of him, he writes the following in one of his letters: “the whole orchestra is possessed by the devil; everyone wants me to write a concerto for them”. He also composed two more clarinet concertos in the same year, for the order of the Bavarian king: the Op. 74. E-sharp and the Op. 73rd F-minor clarinet concerto. Schumann’s I. symphony is true to its adjective, it is indeed the sound of spring: a comely natural scene and in a figurative sense, the joy of youth sounds up in it.