Urawa Philharmonic Orchestra The 76th Subscription Concert

The Urawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Toshikazu Sato are resuming the "serie "S series, a series that unearths buried music, for the first time in seven years!

Overture to Weber's "The Magic Bullet" (1821)
　This overture is the most famous piece from Weber's opera "The Magic Bullet", which was premiered by Weber himself in 1821.
　The melody played by four horns at the beginning of the overture is also known as the hymn "Let the Lord take my hand," and many people have probably heard it somewhere. In fact, this melody is played alternately by horns of two different keys (No.1 and No.2 in F major, No.3 and No.4 in C major), so that it sounds like a single melody. It is fun to listen to it while imagining how it is divided.

Norbert Burgmüller / Symphony No. 2
　The name Burgmüller is familiar to everyone who has taken piano lessons. This time, as part of the serie "S" series, we will introduce Norbert Burgmüller's Symphony No. 2, a work by the younger brother of Franz Burgmüller, who is famous for his piano etudes. Norbert Burgmüller died prematurely at the age of 26 without completing this symphony, and this time we will perform Schumann's version of the symphony, which was completed and supplemented (up to three movements).
　Mendelssohn composed the Funeral March for Norbert's premature death, and Schumann said, "I have never been so sad since Schubert's early death (at age 31).

[Dvorak, Symphony No. 8
　Dvořák wrote this symphony in the summer of his 48th year while staying at his villa in Bohemia.
　It is said to be the most Bohemian of Dvořák's symphonies and is very popular. All the movements have ethnic and somewhat martial rhythms and melodies, while the third movement is not a scherzo but a waltz, reminiscent of Slavic dances. If the most famous piece, "From the New World," was written with nostalgia from America to his native Bohemia, then No. 8 is truly the great Bohemia itself.