Mother's Day Concert

“Finis. R.I.P.”: This is what Edward Elgar wrote at the end of his cello concerto. Completed and premiered in 1919, it is probably the composer's most personal work - a wistful remembrance, an elegiac farewell song and a moving lament for the victims of the First World War. It was to remain Elgar's last great creation. It was only after the recording in 1965 by the British cellist Jaqueline du Pré, who was only 20 years old at the time, that the concert became truly popular - and her own later fate (she suffered from multiple sclerosis and died at the age of 43) seemed to coincide with the painful and voluptuous expression of the music in the most intimate way. Now Julia Hagen will exploit this sounding expressivity. Conductor Elim Chan juxtaposes Elgar's moving cello concerto with a symphony full of sparkling joie de vivre: Antonín Dvořák's melodically blissful, rhapsodic Eighth - a composition that harmonizes art and nature in the most charming, ultimately exuberant way.