Colburn Orchestra: Brahms Symphony No. 3

Ambassador Auditorium

Carlos Miguel Prieto and Aleksandra Melaniuk, Conductors
Bence Bubreg, Clarinet 

The season opens with an evening of soulful masterworks rife with musical and emotional turmoil. In Nielsen’s single-movement concerto, the virtuosic clarinet wages war with an insistent snare drum while the work shifts between key signatures, textures, and styles. The battle continues in Brahms’s Third Symphony, which exudes the composer’s characteristic angst as it alternates between major and minor, outcries and whispers. The tragic tale of loss and longing told in the prelude to Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde rounds out the program.  

The Colburn Orchestra is generously underwritten by Eva and Marc Stern.