Sinfoniekonzert - Ziemlich beste Feinde

In the organizer's words:

Pretty best enemies
Symphony concert

studio-orchester duisburg
Melchior Kupke Conductor
Johannes Wedeking Bass

Richard Wagner
"Tannhäuser" Overture
Hugo Wolf
Orchestral songs and arias
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture in D minor op. 81
Hungarian Dances Nos. 4, 5 and 10

It is a pity that the composers cannot meet in person on this evening. It would certainly be entertaining to hear what the antipodes Brahms and Wagner had to say to each other. While the music theater reformer, who landed his first international hit in 1845 with "Tannhäuser", and the world-famous symphonist, not only because of his "Hungarian Dances", met with at best mild spitefulness, Brahms and Hugo Wolf had a proverbial clash. The outbursts against his older colleague, which Wolf regularly published afterwards, were something Brahms used to amusingly share with his friends. But regardless of what the one thought of the other, only masterpieces can be heard.