Brahms-a-palooza at Walk Hall this weekend – JH News&Guide

Maestro Donald Runnicles conducts the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra in a (mostly) all-Brahms program this weekend.

James Ehnes returns to Walk Hall to perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 will follow, and German composer Detlev Glanert’s Brahms-inspired “Weites Land” will start each concert.

Aside from being a celebration of the famously gruff, sensitively secretive and fastidiously persnickety German composer, each night will be recorded as part of a planned multi-year CD project expected to play out over the next few years.

Glanert’s “Weites Land” (2014), which means “open land,” is his fourth orchestral work based on Brahms’ four symphonies. The Grand Teton Music Festival has presented two others in recent years: “Idyllium,” based on Brahms’ Second, in 2022; and “Vexierbild” — a visual puzzle that contains a hidden image — which in 2024 received its world premiere here and was recorded with its forebear, Brahms’ Third. 2012’s “Brahms-Fantasie” departs from Brahms’ First.

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