European Union Youth Orchestra

7 pm: Pre-Concert Talk with Anne Kussmaul at the Werner-Otto-Saal
Free admission for ticket holders at 6:45 pm

PROGRAMME

Even if Europe has lots of critical situations to weather these days: the European Union Youth Orchestra, bringing together young instrumentalists from all the EU states from Portugal to Estonia, from Ireland to Malta, is unimpressed by these troubles. On the contrary: with grand works and a impressive forces, the EUYO presents itself once again at Young Euro Classic. Before the interval, Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor graces the programme, one of the most playable and popular works of this genre; the soloist is the internationally sought-after German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. After the interval, the EUYO dedicates itself to Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor: marching rhythms, folk music, world-weariness and nightmare visions appear before our ears. Amidst all this orchestral vehemence, the Fifth finds its calm centre in its Adagietto movement, which enjoys a popularity extending far beyond the concert hall.