HEROIC AND CHAMBER SYMPHONIES / FBD II

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

THOMAS ADÈS

Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths”, Czech premiere

MILOSLAV KABELÁČ

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 36 “Camerata”

 

Yumi Hwang-Williams violin

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• Brahms’s Third Symphony of 1883, sometimes called “Heroic” (analogous to Beethoven’s Eroica) for its dramatic pathos • A violin concerto by a leading contemporary English composer, Thomas Adès, written in 2005 on commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Berliner Festspiele and since then performed countless times at the world’s most prestigious concert venues • Yumi Hwang-Williams, the concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony • A symphony in the “Classical” spirit by Miloslav Kabeláč, a cardinal figure of Czech music in the second half of the twentieth century, composed in 1957-1958 and premiered by the Prague Chamber Orchestra sixty years ago, on 3 March 1959