Great emotions with Sibelius and Mahler in the Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum

Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto, whose strikingly virtuosic final movement is one of the most well-known in violin literature, still exerts a strong fascination on musicians and listeners to this day. In a concert with the Salzburg Philharmonic and Elisabeth Fuchs, the celebrated German solo violinist Alina Pogostkina was able to show in a bravura and subtle manner why she is considered one of the world's best interpreters of Sibelius: with her deeply soulful playing, the winner of the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki made sure of it great emotions in the orchestra and audience in the freshly lit Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum.
The second part of the concert evening also started with great emotions: Gustav Mahler wrote that he recorded “what he experienced and suffered” in this work. The Salzburg Philharmonic, conducted by Elisabeth Fuchs, took the audience on a musical journey through the emotional world of the great late-Romantic composer – from resonant images of nature and solemnly solemn tones to folk-song-like moments and stormy climaxes in the fourth and last movement of the symphony – a concert evening , who left no one unmoved.

Alina Pogostkina Solo Violin
Elisabeth Fuchs · Conductor
Philharmonic Salzburg

Photo credit: Erika Mayer

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