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Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98 (1885) 40′

ARTISTS

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC)
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

Programme

This concert is included in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of L’Auditori.
Tickets for this concert will be free and will be available from March 1 at 9 a.m. They will be available via online download and at the box office with a limit of two tickets per person. Capacity is limited.

Before the concert, Jordi Oriol and the Indi Gest company will introduce the work by means of a dramatised presentation explaining its context, in a free, creative format.

Johannes Brahms was over forty years old when he presented his First Symphony. It took him more than fourteen years to compose it and more than two decades had passed since the first drafts. It was not an easy premiere: the legacy of Beethoven loomed large, and Brahms was widely regarded as his successor. It was, however, an instant success.

A decade later, Brahms premiered his fourth and final symphony. This piece was also received to extraordinary acclaim and bolstered his reputation as the greatest German composer of his day, establishing a new legacy that looked to the past while laying foundations for the future. The Fourth Symphony is a technically refined work of great depth and incomparable musicality.