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Brahms 3

Bartók's furious 1st Piano Concerto and Brahmsian Romanticism
© Marco Borggreve

10/03

Saturday | 10/03/2026
6:00 pm Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

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10/04

Sunday | 10/04/2026
11:00 am Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

Prices
from 64 | 53 | 45 | 39 | 29 | 22 €
FLEX fee + 6 €
Reduced prices:
from € 10 for pupils under 18 
from €10 for young people under 30
from 11 € for Dresden-Pass and SB from GdB 80
Who receives discounts? Read here.

About the Concert

With drums and piano - Bartók's First Piano Concerto can safely be described as a percussion concerto. Not only because he treats the piano almost like a percussion instrument, producing more rhythm than melody, but also because the timpani are equal partners to the piano. In contrast, Brahms' Third Symphony seems almost meditative, with many considering it his most emotionally mature work. This is also due to the third movement, which is one of the most famous slow symphonic movements and has often been used in film music. The concert opens with an opera in fast motion. In the overture to his "Freischütz," Weber tells almost the entire story of the opera, including village romance and the Wolf's Glen. The horns play a special role, symbolizing hunting, the forest, and German Romanticism. It is no coincidence that "Der Freischütz" is considered the first true German Romantic opera and deeply impressed and influenced Richard Wagner.

Programme

Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz. Overture

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 1

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major (1883)

Artists

Gergely Madaras
Conductor
Anna Vinnitskaya
Piano
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Gergely Madaras

Hungarian-born Gergely Madaras trained as a flutist, violinist, composer, and conductor, gaining a deep insight into the workings of an orchestra and its repertoire. From 2019 to 2025, he was Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debuts with the Dresden Philharmonic, at the Palau de la Música Valencia, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Welsh National Opera, among others. He was named "Conductor of the Year" at the 2025 Bartók Radio Awards.

 

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Anna Vinnitskaya

Anna Vinnitskaya's phenomenal piano playing is characterized by creative power and tonal nuance, unconditionality and energy. Winning first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2007 marked her international breakthrough, followed by engagements with the world's leading orchestras, which always invite her back, often in the form of an artist residency. Since 2009, she has been a professor at the Hamburg Musikhochschule, where she herself once studied.

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Dresdner Philharmonie

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Top class! That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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