Music by two Austrian composers, who lived and worked in Los Angeles from the 1930s, is on the program of a concert by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, born in 1897, began his musical career in Vienna as Child prodigy and from 1934 became a major co-creator of the Hollywood sound. However, his Violin Concerto dates from that later period when Korngold had already turned away from film music and turned once more to absolute music. Arnold Schönberg came to Los Angeles in the same year as Korngold. Schönberg did not find a connection in Hollywood, instead he earned his living there as a university teacher. In 1937 he arranged the piano quartet in G minor by his role model Johannes Brahms for large orchestra – and thus made an important posthumous contribution to his symphonic oeuvre. The program opens with Espenbaum for orchestra written in 2020 by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets.

Program:

Maxim Kolomiiets – Espenbaum für Orchester (2020)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-Dur op. 35 (1945)
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Johannes Brahms – Klavierquartett Nr. 1 g-moll op. 25 (Bearbeitung für Orchester: Arnold Schönberg) (1857–1861/1937)