Düsseldorf, Germany – Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra – Dvořák, Spohr, Eichberg

PERFORMERS
Florian Schroeder, Moderation
Vision String Quartet
Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
Alena Hron, Conductor

PROGRAMME
Dvořák:
Slavonic Dance in C major op. 46/1
Slavonic Dance in C minor op. 46/7

Spohr: Quartet Concerto op. Op. 131 for two violins, viola, violoncello and orchestra (1st movement)
Eichberg: Endorphin for string quartet and string orchestra

Works from the program »Spektrum« of the Vision String Quartet
Dvořák:
Slavonic Dance in C minor op. 72/2
Slavonic Dance in C major op. 72/7

VENUE NOTE
“Anyone who has visions should go to the doctor,” said Helmut Schmidt. Florian Schroeder recommends instead: Come to the concert! Here, his trenchant enlightenment meets musical visionaries – above all the eponymous Vision String Quartet (guaranteed to be in perfect health!) and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra.
Experience Louis Spohr’s courageous idea of a concerto for quartet and orchestra – a vision that was only taken up again long after him (for example by Søren Nils Eichberg with his “Endorphin”). By the way, Spohr also had the vision of the baton, so that conductors no longer end up like Lully (who rammed the time post into his foot – fatal!). While the orchestra and the quartet unfold musical visions from Spohr to the present (including VSQ numbers from »Spectrum«), Schroeder drills holes in the fourth wall with his usual astuteness. What seems like a humorous loosening exercise quickly turns out to be a sugary hatch into the world of bold ideas.
An evening full of presto and snorting, which lets your emotional apparatus swing back and forth between the waves of emotion over visionary sounds and the storms of cheerfulness over Schroeder’s analyses. Conclusion: Good mood guaranteed, no need to visit the doctor!