Okko Kamu, conductor
Lynnette Seah, violin
Ng Pei-Sian cello

Hindemith Nobilissima vision: Suite (21’)
Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 (33’)
Intermission
Brahms Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 102 (32’)

Two key masterworks by Brahms take centrestage in this concert: his final, great, work for orchestra, the Double Concerto, was composed for two renowned musical contemporaries: the cellist Robert Hausmann and his old (though estranged) friend, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim. Composed in the aftermath of his feud with Richard Wagner, Brahms’ Third Symphony was a comparative success, despite being hissed and disrupted at its premiere by the pro-Wagnerites who had gathered in the audience.