Hannu Lintu, conductor

Inmo Yang, violin

Ludwig van Beethoven: Die große Fuge

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funébre

Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik 4

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 1

Inmo Yang from South Korea, winner of the Sibelius Violin Competition in 2022, concludes our spring, performing two works with Hannu Lintu conducting. Karl Amadeus Hartmann wrote his Concerto funèbre in 1939, as the Nazis embarked on their attempt at world conquest. As he withdrew into self-imposed domestic exile, he wrote of his concerto: “The intellectual and spiritual hopelessness of our age is given a spark of hope as contrast.” This spark was burning bright in 1926 when Paul Hindemith wrote his Kammermusik 4. This violin concerto is scored for the extremities of the orchestra – piccolos and bass instruments – and the whimsical dedication reads: “Yashnykneshpeff for a dear lion’s birthday”. Mendelssohn was only 15 years old when he wrote his first symphony for full orchestra, but he was already an old hand at the genre, having written a full dozen symphonies for strings before then.

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