Vorabend: von Tokio nach Dresden _ Suwanai − NHK Symphony Orchestra − Luisi

In the organizer's words:

In 2025, the Dresden Music Festival will bring the world-renowned NHK Symphony Orchestra, regarded as one of the best orchestras in Asia, to Dresden for the first time - and for two concerts. Together with its chief conductor Fabio Luisi, the former General Music Director of the Saxon State Opera Dresden, it will perform Alban Berg's fantastically beautiful and moving violin concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" with the top violinist Akiko Suwanai, also from Japan, on the evening before the official start of the festival. This last work Berg completed was written in 1935 after he received the news of the death of Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, who was only eighteen years old at the time and suffering from polio. Prior to this, the "Three Film Scores" by Tōru Takemitsu, compiled in 1994/95, will be on the program as a calling card from the musicians' home country, tailor-made for the Frauenkirche. The evening will conclude with Johannes Brahms' Fourth Symphony, his final contribution to this genre. Today, it is one of the composer's most popular and most frequently performed orchestral works.

AKIKO SUWANAI VIOLIN
NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, TOKYO
FABIO LUISI CONDUCTOR

Tōru Takemitsu "Three Film Scores"
Alban Berg Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "To the Memory of an Angel"
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98

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