In the organizer's words:
Kirill Petrenko travels through the German-Austrian musical tradition with works that repeatedly look into abysses. Mozart's Symphony No. 29, for example, fascinates with its mixture of lightness and subliminal despair; in Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces, echoes of waltzes and marches are nightmarishly alienated and seem to anticipate the catastrophes of the 20th century. Brahms's Fourth Symphony, finally, is one of the most sonorous and magnificent works in the late Romantic repertoire, and at the same time is suffused with touching melancholy.
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