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MAURICE COHN conducts
JAN VOGLER cello
CHAD HOOPES violin

BRAHMS Violin and Cello Concerto in A minor, “Double Concerto”
WEILL Symphony No. 2 (DSO Premiere)

What do you do if you’ve had a falling-out with a cherished friend and advisor and want to make amends? Well, if you’re Johannes Brahms and violinist Josef Joachim is your friend, a Double Concerto is the perfect peace offering, expressed in musical language. A give-and-take between violin and cello as they trade phrases and musical gestures full of drama and lyricism, confirming the emotional capital they’ve invested in one another over the decades. Bringing the concerto to life are Chad Hoopes, internationally lauded faculty member of Southern Methodist University, and world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler. Maurice Cohn also leads the first DSO performance of Weill’s Second Symphony, composed in the fraught Post-World-War-I period. The funeral cortège-second movement, says commentator David Drew, is followed by a rondo finale with “marches and counter-marches, and a demented tarantella coda.”