Would you like to hear Bernard Haitink, Leonidas Kavakos, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe live as they perform Brahms’s famous Violin Concerto and the buoyant, summery Second Symphony? Simply answer today’s prize question – with a bit of luck, you can win a free pair of tickets to attend this concert.

Johannes Brahms took many years before completing his First Symphony in 1876. Once he had made that breakthrough, three more symphonies, several other works for orchestra, and famous concertos followed. Yet much earlier, someone had predicted that Brahms was destined to reign supreme over “the  powers of the masses, in chorus and orchestra”: namely, Robert Schumann, who declared the young Brahms to be the new Messiah of German musical life in an essay in 1853. What is the title of this famous article, which Schumann published in “Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik”?

a. Brahms the Progressive
b. The True Music of the Future
c. The Second Beethoven
d. New Paths
e. Magnificent Prospects

Please send the letter and title that you believe corresponds to the correct answer to the following address: info@lucernefestival.ch

We will randomly select the winners of three pairs of free tickets from those who have sent in the correct answer. Responses must be received by 28 March 2011. All decisions are final.