Closing Orchestral Concert – – Slovak Philharmonic – Daniel Raiskin – Sueye Park – Yuya Mizuno

Franz Schmidt was one of the composers shaped by the profound spiritual crisis at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The norms and techniques that had prevailed for centuries were fading, and it became necessary to seek new alternatives. Schmidt approached this dilemma with a pragmatic mindset, striving to create a fusion of the poetics of his great models—Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner… Among these influences, one of the most significant was Johannes Brahms. The Hamburg-born composer resisted reformist strategies and relied on the legacy of the great minds of the past—particularly the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Brahms’s symphonic Violin Concerto can be seen as a “twin” of Beethoven’s D major Concerto.

Tickets: https://skozilina.sk/podujatie/allegretto-2026-6/

Programme:
Schmidt, Franz: Intermezzo from the opera “Notre Dame”
Brahms, Johannes: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102
Schmidt, Franz: Symphony No. 1 in E major