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Program

Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96

I: "Da bin ich!"

Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

1. Adagio — Moderato

2. Lento — Allegro molto

3. Adagio

4. Allegro — Moderato — Allegro, ma non troppo — Poco più lento — Adagio

Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

1. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro

2. Andante sostenuto

3. Adagio

4. Adagio - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

The Berliner Philharmoniker's 2010 Europakonzert — Oxford

With Daniel Barenboim and Alisa Weilerstein

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Cast

Berliner Philharmoniker

Daniel Barenboim — Conductor

Alisa Weilerstein — Cellist

Program notes

May morning in Oxford, and the Berliner Philharmoniker join in the celebratory mood abroad in the university city's medieval streets with this concert in Sir Christopher Wren's glorious Sheldonian Theatre. For 20 years, the Philharmoniker have given a May Day concert in one of Europe's great historic cities, and here, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, the Berlin players thrill the Oxford audience with the sonorous Prelude to Act III of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, a deeply-felt account of Elgar's autumnal Cello Concerto by the young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and a rousing performance of Brahms's life-affirming First Symphony.

A closer look: featured composers

Johannes Brahms

Edward Elgar

Richard Wagner

Further listening: featured works

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

Edward Elgar (Composer)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96

Richard Wagner (Composer)