Zeitenwende

Old and new join together on this beautiful programme in which the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra under Ilan Volkov crosses borders and unites epochs and styles. With his famous six-voice Ricercar from the «Art of the Fugue», Johann Sebastian Bach bestowed every possible contrapuntal honour upon a theme by Frederick the Great - and in Anton Webern's orchestration the work sparkles like a precious gemstone. Brahms commemorated the venerable Joseph Haydn in his magnificent «Haydn Variations»; Arnold Schönberg proclaimed a new age with the electrifying fanfare in fourths of his Chamber Symphony No. 1; and percussion soloist Colin Currie is put through his paces in Andrew Norman's «Switch» (2015) to complete an exciting evening.