Bruch och Brahms Uppsala Kammarorkester

Conductor Jascha van der Goltz returns to the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra with violinist Hans Christian Aavik for Bruch’s Violin Concerto and Brahms Symphony No 4.

Category & Stage	Duration	Price	Age limit
Classical Uppsala Concert & Congress, Stora salen	2 hours (incl. intermission)	Regular: 290 - 340 SEK Limited visibility/comfort: 135 SEK Service fee will be added	None, but not adapted for younger children

About the Performance

Participants

Conductor: Jascha van der Goltz
Soloist: Hans Christian Aavik, violin
Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

Concert Introduction 6:20 PM – 6:40 PM

Program

Otto Nicolai (1810-1849): Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Max Bruch (1838-1920): Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor op. 26
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98

Following the success of last season, young German conductor Jascha van der Goltz returns. The program includes Bruch’s Lyric Violin Concerto with soloist Hans Christian Aavik, a comic opera overture and Brahms’ last symphony.

Immortal symphony

Brahms’ fourth and final symphony was premiered in Germany in 1885 with the composer himself conducting, a monumental work in which the first movement goes from simple to full power. Brahms brings together gravity, beauty, darkness and light, and there is also inspiration from both Beethoven and Bach.

A lyrical work

Max Bruch wrote his first violin concerto in 1866, since when it has become one of classical music’s most beloved concertos and his most famous works. The three-movement concerto offers lyrical, beautiful and dramatic melodies.

Astonishing violinist

For the soloist, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto is a technical challenge, and it is one of Estonia’s most promising violinists, Hans Christian Aavik, who takes on the task. Aavik has received numerous international prizes and the New York Times called his energetic playing “astonishing” during a tour in 2025. He was a guest of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra in spring 2022, then in Nielsen’s Violin Concerto.

Successful storytelling

The evening opens with an overture to ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. German composer Otto Nicolai never lived to see the success of his comic opera based on Shakespeare’s play, which premiered eight weeks before his death in 1849.

A fond reunion

Young German conductor Jascha von der Goltz recently made his international breakthrough. Jascha started his musical life as a cellist and percussionist and has performed with many major orchestras around Europe. He made a success when he visited Uppsala Chamber Orchestra for the first time in the fall of 2025 with Eldfågeln and now he is welcomed back to Uppsala.

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

With a range of styles spanning from grand symphonies to more intimate chamber music works, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra has performed live music for the county’s residents for over 50 years. The orchestra, considered by many to be one of Sweden’s finest, consists of professional musicians and is renowned for its warm and full orchestral sound. Since 2007, the home stage has been Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, where they also hold family concerts and invite school classes for study visits. In recent years, the orchestra
has made appreciated guest appearances in Estonia, in the concert halls in Gothenburg, Vara and Norrköping and Artipelag on Värmdö. Uppsala Chamber Orchestra is part of the foundation Musik i Uppland, a regional music organization in Uppsala with Region Uppsala as the principal.

The concert is organized by Musik i Uppland and is part of the Orchestra Series – Big Subscription and Small Subscription