Brahms' Symphony No. 2

Following a highly acclaimed appearance with Gulbenkian Music in 2025, the Polish conductor Paweł Kapuła now applies his contagious energy and interpretative intelligence to Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. After taking around fourteen years to complete his First Symphony, the composer whom Schumann proclaimed Beethoven’s musical successor produced his second symphonic work in just one year, inspired by a summer holiday by Lake Wörthersee in Austrian Carinthia. It may well have been this idyllic landscape that shaped the work’s luminous and melodic character. Photo © Kamil Szkopik Sponsor Gulbenkian Music