Concert Programme
J. Brahms. The Tragic Overture
F. Mendelssohn. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
A. Dvořák. Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra invites its listeners to hear the young and talented German violinist Anne Luisa Kramb along with a program of exceptionally beautiful works by the geniuses of Romantic music Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Antonín Dvořák.
Violinist A. L. Kramb studied at the Würzburg Hochschule für Musik, the Kronberg Academy of Music and the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Since 2024, she has been continuing her studies at the Leipzig Hochschule für Musik und Theater. The soloist has won numerous awards at international competitions, including first prizes at the Młody Paganini (2014), Georg Philipp Telemann (2015), Grażyna Bacewicz (2015) and Louis Spohr (2016) competitions. A. L. Kramb was awarded first prize at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin Competition in London (2016) and the Manhattan International Music Competition in New York (2017), after which she won the opportunity to give a debut recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The soloist, who is “admired for her virtuosity, charisma, pure and mature sound” (“Augsburger-Allgemeine”), says that her greatest goal in music is to be humble. “I don’t feel good when people show themselves off on stage, because I believe that the performer is like a medium between the music written by the composer and the audience,” – says A. L. Kramb. A. L. Kramb plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1724, which was loaned to her from the private collection of the Wiegand family. Tonight, on the stage of the LSSO Concert Hall, A. L. Kramb will play one of the most famous works for the violin, which occupies a pivotal place in the violin repertoire – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64 by the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847).
In the second part of the concert, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra will perform the Seventh Symphony by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904). The symphony, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, was first performed in 1885 in London and immediately received critical acclaim. “Along with the four symphonies of J. Brahms and F. Schubert’s Ninth, A. Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony is one of the finest and purest examples of this art form since the time of L. van Beethoven,” – wrote Sir Donald Tovey, a prominent British music analyst and musicologist of the time.
On this evening, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by maestro from Slovakia Peter Feranec.