3. Sinfoniekonzert

In the organizer's words:

"(un)heard"

Sofia Gubaidulina
Fairy tale poem

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in E flat major S 49

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in C major D 944 "The Great"

A piece of chalk despairs, as it is only used to write boring assignments at school. Thrown away carelessly and in deep darkness, it thinks it has died - but it turns out to be a child's trouser pocket. Soon he is drawing the most beautiful pictures on the asphalt with chalk. In her euphoric joy, she doesn't notice how she gets smaller and smaller and finally ceases to exist. The recently deceased Shostakovich student Sofia Gubaidulina found this story so reminiscent of an artist's fate that she set it to music in her fairytale poem. Like her teacher, she was at times persecuted by the Soviet regime and banned from performing. Today, she is one of the most important composers of her generation.

Around 1800, the keyed trumpet caused a sensation. Unlike its predecessors, it was able to play notes outside the natural tone series for the first time. Johann Nepomuk Hummel's trumpet concerto, premiered in 1804, is one of the pieces that made extensive use of its unprecedented possibilities. The solo part virtuosically presents its new sound spectrum in previously unplayable cantilenas, figurations and trills. At the same time, there are allusions to well-known works such as Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 and his "Haffner" Symphony. Mátyás Regyep, solo trumpeter of the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, brilliantly demonstrates his virtuosity as a performer. A key work of the Romantic period almost gathered dust in a drawer: in 1826, Franz Schubert gave the manuscript of his last symphony to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. It was never performed during his lifetime - it seemed too novel and demanding. When Robert Schumann came across the work in 1839, he enthusiastically sent it to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who soon gave it its acclaimed premiere. Instead of Beethoven's dramatic symphonies, which focus on economy and stringency, Schubert created an epic genre model in the "Great C major", which allows the musical material with its "harmonic-melodic expansiveness" (Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen) full space to unfold through references, lingering and digressions. Franz Schubert gives us time to rave - and at the same time paves the way for successors such as Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich.