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Brahms Cycle II
7.30pm, Saturday 23rd January 2010 at St George's, Bristol
Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor with Madeleine Ridd (cello)
The second concert this season pairs Brahms' genial Second Symphony (dubbed his 'Pastoral' by some contemporary critics) with the great Cello Concerto by Brahms' long-standing friend Antonin Dvorak. The Second Symphony is the most folk-like in mood of Brahms' four, and reflects the happy circumstances of its composition; after twenty years' struggle over his mighty First, Brahms composed the Second Symphony in a little over a year, much of it while on holiday |