Sinfonia da Camera: From Brahms with Love: Poetry & Passion

Celebrating Valentine’s weekend, this program centers on the music of Johannes Brahms, whose works embody warmth, lyricism, and profound emotional depth. Alongside his music, Clara Schumann’s Konzertsatz in F Minor offers a compelling opening, reflecting her distinctive voice as both composer and pianist, as well as her close and deeply intimate artistic friendship with Brahms. Brahms’s Hungarian Dances (Nos. 1, 3, and 10) bring vibrant energy and rhythmic vitality, drawing on folk traditions with characteristic refinement. At the heart of the program, the Double Concerto in A Minor, performed by violinist Lucia Lin and cellist Owen Young, unfolds as an intimate musical dialogue of two voices in expressive conversation. The concert concludes with Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major, a radiant and expansive work whose pastoral beauty offers a luminous and deeply affectionate close.

Program:

Clara Schumann: Konzertsatz in F Minor for piano and orchestra
Ian Hobson, piano and conductor

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3, and 10

Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102
Lucia Lin, violin; Owen Young, cello

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73