Bruch’s Violin Concerto

As part of today's Prom's Marathon Monday, Ian Skelly offers another chance to catch Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Bremen orchestra playing Haydn & Robert Schumann. Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich joins them for Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, ‘Trauer’
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor (rev. version, 1851)

Daniel Lozakovich, violin
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, written at the height of his fame in Europe, embodies the bracing rhythms, lyrical melodies and dramatic silences typical of the ‘Storm and Stress’ movement, its nickname – ‘Trauer’ or ‘Mourning’ – arising from the suggestion he requested its serene slow movement be played at his funeral. Max Bruch evoked the heyday of Romanticism in his lush, ever-popular First Violin Concerto: young Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich returns following his acclaimed Proms debut in 2022. Sketched out in less than a week during a period of white-hot inspiration in 1841, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is the outgoing, extrovert complement to his calmer, recently completed ‘Spring’ Symphony. Omer Meir Wellber, a former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts one of Europe’s leading orchestras.