Chief conductor Jaime Martín returns to conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with the young violinist Ellinor D’Melon for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The concert also features the Irish Premiere of Albert Schnelzer’s Burn My Letters: Remembering Clara, written in tribute to the pioneering composer. Based on her letters to life-long family friend Johannes Brahms – Clara voiced by wild and free flute, Brahms by a more controlled and cautious bassoon – it’s an intriguing, enchanting, intimate and illuminating dialogue between the fellow composers.
Schnelzer: Burn My Letters: Remembering Clara (Irish Premiere)
Co-commission from Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín (conductor)
Ellinor D’Melon (violin)
(First broadcast Friday 6th December 2019)
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 3rd April, 7.30pm-9.30pm