Bruch’s Violin Concerto

Live at the BBC Proms: Omer Meir Wellber conducts the Bremen orchestra playing Haydn & Robert Schumann, with Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich joining them for Bruch's concerto.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

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

c.8.15pm
Interval: Jessica Duchen looks at the two versions of Robert Schumann's Fourth Symphony and what they tell us about his approach to orchestral writing.

c.8.35pm
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.