Reinhold Friedrich, the trumpet soloist, is a professor at the University of Music Karlsruhe and an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Performer Biography
Roman Brogli-Sacher, the conductor, served as General Music Director and Opera Director at Theater Lübeck from 2001 to 2013, during which time the ensemble won an ECHO Klassik award.
Compositional Technique
Brahms's Fourth Symphony uses a passacaglia, a Baroque succession form, for its final movement, a novel approach for a symphonic finale at the time.
Compositional Technique
Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto combines jazz elements, a twelve-tone row with tonal centers, and the Negro Spiritual "Nobody knows de trouble I see" as a cantus firmus.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto, "Nobody knows de trouble I see," aims to show a path to "brotherly relations" by fusing three stylistically heterogeneous principles, written under the impression of racial fanaticism.
Compositional Technique
The orchestration of Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto includes a saxophone trio, three jazz trumpets, a jazz trombone, and typical jazz percussion alongside a classical symphony orchestra.
Compositional Technique
The passacaglia theme in Brahms's Fourth Symphony was likely inspired by Bach's cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" (BWV 150), which Brahms then chromaticized.
