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Violin Concerto, String Quintet Op. 111
Johannes Brahms

Antje Weithaas

Violin Concerto, String Quintet Op. 111

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533282
Catnr: AVI 8553328
Release date: 11 December 2015
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CAvi
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4260085533282
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AVI 8553328
Release date
11 December 2015
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REFLECTIONS ON BRAHMS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO AND THE STRING QUINTET
"....We tackled the challenge of performing and recording without a conductor. Of course, when I otherwise perform this concerto with a conductor, I intensely learn and think through the orchestra part in my head. It is a challenge I am aware of, and I thus probably would never have had dared to perform this concerto without a conductor. But since I’ve often performed the Beethoven Concerto with the Camerata Bern without a conductor, I started thinking that the Brahms Concerto just might work as well. Over the past 7-9 years we have become so well-acquainted with one another on a musical and personal level that by now we manage to communicate with blindfolds on. I probably would not have dared to embark on this adventure with any other ensemble. The most important thing is that each musician should remain in a “chamber music” attitude while providing the necessary symphonic energy and assuming his/her share of responsibility.... " from the liner notes by Antje Weithaas


Artist(s)

Antje Weithaas (violin)

In addition to her phenomenal career as a soloist and chamber musician, Antje Weithaas is a soughtafter conductor, particularly renowned for her play-conduct collaborations with leading international chamber orchestras. As artistic director of Camerata Bern for nearly a decade, she helped shape the ensemble’s distinctive musical identity and continues to collaborate with them regularly. From the concertmaster’s podium, she has conducted large-scale repertoire, including Beethoven’s symphonies, and has recorded works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Beethoven for CAvi. She has also enjoyed a close artistic partnership as artiste associé with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. In 2025, she will embark on a South American tour with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Her extensive discography includes Beethoven’s and Berg’s Violin Concertos (with the Stavanger Symphony...
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In addition to her phenomenal career as a soloist and chamber musician, Antje Weithaas is a soughtafter conductor, particularly renowned for her play-conduct collaborations with leading international chamber orchestras.
As artistic director of Camerata Bern for nearly a decade, she helped shape the ensemble’s distinctive musical identity and continues to collaborate with them regularly. From the concertmaster’s podium, she has conducted large-scale repertoire, including Beethoven’s symphonies, and has recorded works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Beethoven for CAvi.
She has also enjoyed a close artistic partnership as artiste associé with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.
In 2025, she will embark on a South American tour with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Her extensive discography includes Beethoven’s and Berg’s Violin Concertos (with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Steven Sloane, CAvi) and the complete works for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch (with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Hermann Bäumer, CPO). Her acclaimed solo recordings feature J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas. Further highlights include celebrated recordings of Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto—alongside cellist Maximilian Hornung and conductor Andrew Manze—which received the BBC Music Magazine Award in the „Concerto“ category. Her recording of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto and Concerto-Rhapsody with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, conducted by Daniel Raiskin, was also met with critical acclaim. Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of four and studied with Professor Werner Scholz at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.
She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987, the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, and the prestigious Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover in 1991, which she now co-directs artistically with Oliver Wille. After teaching for several years at the Universität der Künste Berlin, she joined the faculty at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in 2004, where she has since become one of the world’s most respected violin pedagogues.
She performs on a 2001 violin by Peter Greiner.


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Camerata Bern

CAMERATA BERN, founded in 1962 and consisting of 15 soloists, stands for artistic excellence as well as for curiosity and the joy of playing, always fostering tradition as well as breaking new ground and engaging audiences with a multifaceted programme. Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Steven Isserlis are associated with the ensemble as Artistic Partners. CAMERATA BERN is committed to artistic diversity and moves between preserving the string ensemble tradition, engaging with historical performance practice and actively embracing new concert formats and contemporary music. Rooted in Bern with its own concert series, CAMERATA BERN regularly performs at international festivals and in leading concert halls in Switzerland, Europe and beyond. While CAMERATA BERN cultivates the chamber music style of ensemble playing, it calls upon additional musicians for each individual project. In addition to...
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CAMERATA BERN, founded in 1962 and consisting of 15 soloists, stands for artistic excellence as well as for curiosity and the joy of playing, always fostering tradition as well as breaking new ground and engaging audiences with a multifaceted programme.
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Steven Isserlis are associated with the ensemble as Artistic Partners.
CAMERATA BERN is committed to artistic diversity and moves between preserving the string ensemble tradition, engaging with historical performance practice and actively embracing new concert formats and contemporary music.
Rooted in Bern with its own concert series, CAMERATA BERN regularly performs at international festivals and in leading concert halls in Switzerland, Europe and beyond. While CAMERATA BERN cultivates the chamber music style of ensemble playing, it calls upon additional musicians for each individual project.
In addition to the collaborations with the Artistic Partners, the ensemble is regularly performing with soloists and guest leaders such as Anna Prohaska, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Alina Ibragimova or its former Artistic Director Antje Weithaas.
CAMERATA BERN‘s numerous recordings have won international awards, such as the Grand Prix du Disque, the German Record Critics‘ Award and the BBC Music Magazine Award. CAMERATA BERN and Antje Weithaas released a critically acclaimed recording of P-eteris Vasks’ second violin concerto in 2024 on the CAvi-music label. Most recently, the album EXILE has been published in January 2025 with Artistic Partner Patricia Kopatchinakaja on the Alpha Classics label.
The ensemble also regularly brings music directly to the people, beyond the traditional concert context, with school concerts in the canton of Bern and with the ‘KonzertGeschenke’ format in rural areas and in social and educational institutions such as asylum centres, prisons and special schools.


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Composer(s)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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