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Radio 3,31 Aug 2026,89 mins

Bruch’s Violin Concerto

Radio 3's Proms Marathon Monday

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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. The presenter at the Royal Albert Hall was Georgia Mann. 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.

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Symphony No.44 in E minor, ‘Trauer’
    Symphony No.44 in E minor, ‘Trauer’
    Joseph Haydn
  3. 2.
    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
    Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
    Max Bruch
  4. 3.
    Violin Concerto No.2 in D Minor (Op.22) Second movement
    Violin Concerto No.2 in D Minor (Op.22) Second movement
    Henryk Wieniawski
  5. 4.
    Symphony No. 4 in D minor (1851 revision)
    Symphony No. 4 in D minor (1851 revision)
    Robert Schumann