Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Supernatural talent - "You can't show virtuosity in Beethoven's concerto, you can only show yourself": this is how María Dueñas, born in Granada in southern Spain in 2002, puts it. She is one of the most exciting violinists of her generation and has a bright future ahead of her. How masterfully Dueñas succeeds in conveying her personality through her sound was also emphasized by the reviewer of the "Badische Zeitung", who praised her playing as "slender, delicate and profound" and downright unearthly and attested to her "breathtaking musical maturity": "Beethoven's violin concerto sounds like nothing you've ever heard before." Years ago, the feuilleton of the Spanish "Correo" also celebrated the "natural, or rather supernatural talent" that the then 17-year-old presented. No wonder that the renowned label Deutsche Grammophon quickly signed the multi-talented violinist to an exclusive contract after she won the Yehudi Menuhin Competition 2021. A live recording from the Vienna Musikverein was released for her debut, where Dueñas also demonstrated her compositional imagination as a soloist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra - with newly written cadenzas for each movement of Beethoven's Solitaire.

Together with their Principal Guest Conductor Marie Jacquot, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra will present a concert evening in Freiburg that draws inspiration from the Danube metropolis, which has also been Dueñas' adopted home since 2016: In addition to Beethoven's violin concerto, which was premiered in Vienna, the Adagio from Bruckner's 7th Symphony will be performed, which was arranged by the composer's master student Ferdinand Löwe for the consecration in Vienna's Karlskirche after the composer's death in 1896. The orchestral version of Johannes Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor, prepared by the Viennese-born Arnold Schönberg, also speaks of deep appreciation. Otto Klemperer ennobled it with the verdict: "You don't even want to hear the original quartet anymore, the arrangement sounds so beautiful."

Program:
Bruckner, Adagio from Symphony No. 7 in E major WAB 107 (arr. Löwe)
Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major op. 61
Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor op. 25 (arr. Schönberg)

María Dueñas, violin
Marie Jacquot, conductor
Wiener Symphoniker

With the kind support of Volksbank Freiburg eG and the Freunde und Förderer der Albert Konzerte e.V.

EUR 119,- / 105,- / 89,- / 65,- / 51,- incl. fees

María Dueñas | Photo © Felix Broede/DG