Sunset

"If a song sleeps in all things / That dream on and on / And the world begins to sing / If only you can find the magic word."

Joseph von Eichendorff's quatrain is very specific: it formulates the totality of a world animated and enlivened by spirit and feeling - subtle sensuality and fine magic in one. Nature awakens and reflects feeling; the soul merges with the wind, the flowing water, the cycle of becoming and fading of tree and flower.

Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2, which he began in 1877 in the natural idyll of Pörtschach on Lake Wörth, is considered his 'Nature Symphony' - it breathes pastoral gentleness and natural verve; the famous critic Eduard Hanslick attested to it at the time that it "shines with healthy freshness and clarity." The horn, which Robert Schumann called "the soul of the orchestra", builds the bridge to the second symphonic work with a masterful performer in Mozart's Horn Concerto.

Franz Liszt's symphonic poem 'Les Préludes' from 1848/1854 was long regarded as the orchestral masterpiece of its composer. Nevertheless, it fell under the spell of the music world. Nazi propaganda used a fragment of it for the war newsreel and misinterpreted the cosmopolitan Liszt (born in Hungary and deeply attached to France, Germany and Italy alike) for their murderous purposes. While 'Les Préludes' were always played even in Israel, they had to remain silent in Germany for decades. We consider it a kind of small restitution to Franz Liszt as a lifelong protagonist of international understanding to allow this profound and beautiful work to continue to be heard.

Johannes Brahms
SINFONY NO.2
(1877)

Wolfgang A. Mozart
HORN CONCERTO NO.4 IN E FLAT MAJOR KV 495
(1786)

Franz Liszt
LES PRÉLUDES
(1848-1854)

Jörg Brückner, horn
CAPITOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor: Niklas Benjamin Hoffmann

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