Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

E. MAYER
Faust, Overture

MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 in E minor

A signature programme on the theme of fate. Violinist Bomsori elevates Mendelssohn’s Concerto before the orchestra unleashes the fateful power of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth.

Under the direction of Joana Mallwitz, the first woman to hold a permanent chief conductor position in Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin traces a journey placed under the sign of destiny. In the Faust Overture by Emilie Mayer—a music of quest, inspired by Goethe—aspiration collides with doubt.

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor extends this tension in a continuous flow. Its immediate lyricism and demand for purity of line make it an ideal work for Bomsori, the Korean violinist whose playing is at once ardent and supremely elegant. In the second half, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 unfolds its grand fresco of fate, shot through with dark tensions before a deliberately ambiguous conclusion.