Interview
Christian Tetzlaff on his season as Artist in Residence Brahms’s Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff and Simon Rattle
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff is hailed by the press as someone who combines “sparkling technique and analytical acuity with dazzling musicality and a healthy dose of mischief”. In the 2014/15 season, he was Artist in Residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker. This concert with Brahms’s Violin Concerto under the baton of Simon Rattle marks the high point of his time with the orchestra.
Christian Tetzlaff is described by the press as a “master violinist” who “sinks into the compositions, immerses himself completely in order to emerge unpretentiously”, and as a virtuoso who extracts a “beauty and richness, variety and colourfulness of sound” from his instrument that is “simply astonishing”. At the beginning of this evening, he performs Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Philharmoniker under the baton of Simon Rattle. The second half included Images by Claude Debussy, inspired by folk melodies from England, Spain and France, an orchestral triptych iridescent in every conceivable instrumental colour. The programme is rounded off by George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, inspired by the folklore of his homeland – a vibrant, instrumentally colourful piece that finishes with a furious stretta.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Christian Tetzlaff
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