Interview
Jörg Widmann in conversation with Dominik Wollenweber Simon Rattle and Yefim Bronfman
One of the most yearning compositions ever written opens this concert from December 2014: Wagner’s Tristan prelude. The main works of this evening conducted by Simon Rattle are Jean Sibelius’s mystical tone poem The Swan of Tuonela and his austere Nordic Fifth Symphony, plus the premiere of the piano concerto Trauermarsch by Jörg Widmann, one of the most interesting composers of the younger generation, with Yefim Bronfman as the soloist.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Yefim Bronfman
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