Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Performing with; Philharmonia Zürich; Zusatzchor des Opernhauses Zürich; Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Wiesbaden, Kurhaus
19:00 Uhr

Amazing but true: If Daniil Trifonov hadn’t started composing, he probably wouldn’t have become a pianist either. First there was composing, he likes to confess. The piano came later. So it is not surprising that composition and interpretation are equally important for Trifonov. This once again reveals the special position of the modest world star, for the double talents of composers and instrumental virtuosos are rare these days. In concert with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Trifonov can now be heard in both of his professions. How much he let himself be inspired by the music of his famous ancestor Sergei Rachmaninov, he definitely doesn’t keep his mouth shut in his first piano concerto. As far as virtuosity, storm and urge are concerned, he cannot deny his role models and yet takes his very own Trifonovian path.

Jakub Hrůša Conductor
Daniil Trifonov Piano

Daniil Trifonov Konzert für Klavier und Orchester es-Moll
Bedřich Smetana »Mà vlast« (»Mein Vaterland«)

Featuring

Jakub Hrůša conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin

Program

Dvořák The Wood Dove
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

About the performance

Brilliant young Czech maestro Jakub Hrůša returns to the MSO with Dvořák’s subtly scored orchestral ballad, The Wood Dove, based on a Czech legend of infatuation and murder in a rural village. A muted funeral march, a typical Dvořákian wedding dance and the tragic epilogue, relieved by the song of the wood dove. Ukranian-born Vadim Gluzman is a superb violinist of the Russian school and his interpretation of the beloved Tchaikovsky concerto with its fiery virtuosity and wistful poetry is not to be missed.

Mussorgsky’s wrote his famous memorial to his dear friend, the artist Victor Harmann in the form of a suite of piano pieces depicting the composer “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly, in order to come closer to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend.”

Ravel was on his own mission when he orchestrated the suite in 1922. With a strong experimental impulse he introduces new sounds with the saxophone and celeste, and explores the outermost reaches of instrumental possibilities in his search for new colours and contrasts. Revel in Ravel’s great 20th century orchestral showpiece.

Featuring

Jakub Hrůša conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin

Program

Dvořák The Wood Dove
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

About the performance

Brilliant young Czech maestro Jakub Hrůša returns to the MSO with Dvořák’s subtly scored orchestral ballad, The Wood Dove, based on a Czech legend of infatuation and murder in a rural village. A muted funeral march, a typical Dvořákian wedding dance and the tragic epilogue, relieved by the song of the wood dove. Ukranian-born Vadim Gluzman is a superb violinist of the Russian school and his interpretation of the beloved Tchaikovsky concerto with its fiery virtuosity and wistful poetry is not to be missed.

Mussorgsky’s wrote his famous memorial to his dear friend, the artist Victor Harmann in the form of a suite of piano pieces depicting the composer “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly, in order to come closer to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend.”

Ravel was on his own mission when he orchestrated the suite in 1922. With a strong experimental impulse he introduces new sounds with the saxophone and celeste, and explores the outermost reaches of instrumental possibilities in his search for new colours and contrasts. Revel in Ravel’s great 20th century orchestral showpiece.

Featuring

Jakub Hrůša conductor
Vadim Gluzman violin

Program

Dvořák The Wood Dove
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

About the performance

Brilliant young Czech maestro Jakub Hrůša returns to the MSO with Dvořák’s subtly scored orchestral ballad, The Wood Dove, based on a Czech legend of infatuation and murder in a rural village. A muted funeral march, a typical Dvořákian wedding dance and the tragic epilogue, relieved by the song of the wood dove. Ukranian-born Vadim Gluzman is a superb violinist of the Russian school and his interpretation of the beloved Tchaikovsky concerto with its fiery virtuosity and wistful poetry is not to be missed.

Mussorgsky’s wrote his famous memorial to his dear friend, the artist Victor Harmann in the form of a suite of piano pieces depicting the composer “roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly, in order to come closer to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend.”

Ravel was on his own mission when he orchestrated the suite in 1922. With a strong experimental impulse he introduces new sounds with the saxophone and celeste, and explores the outermost reaches of instrumental possibilities in his search for new colours and contrasts. Revel in Ravel’s great 20th century orchestral showpiece.

Jakub Hrůša conducts Dvořák, Lundquist, Brahms and Glanert

Abo A / Schüler-Abo
Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
20:00 Uhr

Not every story has a happy ending! For his symphonic poem, Dvořák selected a subject-matter from his fellow countryman Karel Jaromír Erben’s ballad collection »Kytice«: the »Wood Pigeon« is based upon an old Bohemian legend about the feigned sorrow of a woman who murdered her husband to marry her lover. The pigeon’s song becomes the voice of her conscience, accusing her ceaselessly until she kills herself in despair. A funeral march runs through the entire tone poem – although Dvořák brings the piece to a conciliatory conclusion. After this, an instrument only rarely in the spotlight will make a grand appearance: our orchestra’s tuba player, Heiko Triebener, will interpret the multifaceted concerto »Landscape« by Torbjörn Ivan Lundquist. In his works, the Swedish composer was always concerned with »the essence of life; not to escape reality, but to reinstate it.« His tuba concerto is a fascinating and virtuoso exploration of the specific sound of the lowest brass instrument. Lundquist was struck with the idea for this piece on the west coast of Sweden: »The title alludes to the ideal state of nature or a landscape before its ecological balance is disturbed – and this also applies metaphorically to the inner ‘landscape’ of human beings.« Brahms’s Second Symphony was also shaped by the experience of nature: drafted during a summer on the Wörthersee, it is occasionally referred to as his »Pastoral Symphony«. Many of its passages seem to be flooded with sunlight, like the place it was written – but the composer also warned a friend: »You will never have heard anything filled with greater Weltschmerz.« To conclude, we will be performing a brand new work by the musical magician Detlev Glanert, whose music is always moving. We can all look forward to the premiere of his »angry« Allegro!

Jakub Hrůša Conductor
Heiko Triebener Tuba

Antonín Dvořák »Die Waldtaube«, Symphonische Dichtung op. 110
Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist »Landscape« für Tuba und Streicher
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 D major op. 73
Detlev Glanert encore! Uraufführung einer Zugabe

Charity concert with Jakub Hrůša, Olga Peretyatko und Rolando Villazón

Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
20:00 Uhr

The church of St. Michael had to be closed in November 2012. Ever since then, Bamberg’s citizens have had to do without their favourite wedding church. At present, neither the wonderful garden of heaven on the church’s arched ceiling, nor Bishop Otto’s grave, nor any of the other church treasures are available for viewing. St. Michael’s historic organ has fallen silent and, like many things in and around the former monastery church, needs to be restored. The proceeds of this charity concert will go to the Bamberg World Cultural Heritage Foundation to support the church’s renovation. Join us for an outstanding concert in aid of a good cause, and help to preserve one of Bamberg’s greatest gems!

In cooperation with »Lied & Lyrik«

Leoš Janáček’s three-act opera The Cunning Little Vixen is based on motifs of Rudolf Těsnohlídek’s tale of the same name which came out first in serial form in the newspaper ‘Lidové Noviny’ and subsequently in book form. Janáček wrote the opera, his seventh, from 1921-1923 and over time it has become one of his most frequently performed operas. In addition to its unprecedented melodic inventiveness, striking eloquence and correspondingly dramatic denouement, an interesting feature of the work is the characters’ use of fox dialect and the slang used by woodcutters in the Adamov area. Tonight the Orchestra performs the full suite and two extracts from the opera, with the solo parts sung by the Prague National Theatre’s Opera Company sopranos Kateřina Kněžíková and Alžběta Poláčková, and leading baritone and 2017 Thália Prize winner Svatopluk Sem.

The four symphonies written by Robert Schumann represent a conceptual link between those of Beethoven and Brahms. His third C-major symphony was completed in 1846 but is designated Symphony no. 2 because Schumann revised the original second symphony in D minor a few years after it was written. Opus 61, as performed by the Orchestra tonight, is the result of Schumann’s strong yearning from within to extricate himself from a creative crisis of sorts and redeem some of his earlier less successful compositions.

Both tonight’s works are played by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, who is justly recognised as one of the world’s top-flight conductors.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Jakub Hruša, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9

Described by the St. Louis Post Dispatch as “dazzling,” Karen Gomyo returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a work full of tuneful melodies and an impressive virtuosic display for soloist and orchestra.

• Acclaimed for her performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as a “revelation,” Karen Gomyo returns to Powell Hall for this mighty concerto.
• A wild chase, drama and a passionate embrace are all part of Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Let the music captivate you as this adventure enfolds.
• Written at the close of the Second World War, Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony is full of waltzes, marches and spirited melodies that will mesmerize.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Jakub Hruša, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9

Described by the St. Louis Post Dispatch as “dazzling,” Karen Gomyo returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a work full of tuneful melodies and an impressive virtuosic display for soloist and orchestra.

• Acclaimed for her performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as a “revelation,” Karen Gomyo returns to Powell Hall for this mighty concerto.
• A wild chase, drama and a passionate embrace are all part of Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Let the music captivate you as this adventure enfolds.
• Written at the close of the Second World War, Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony is full of waltzes, marches and spirited melodies that will mesmerize.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Jakub Hruša, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violin

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9

Described by the St. Louis Post Dispatch as “dazzling,” Karen Gomyo returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a work full of tuneful melodies and an impressive virtuosic display for soloist and orchestra.

• Acclaimed for her performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as a “revelation,” Karen Gomyo returns to Powell Hall for this mighty concerto.
• A wild chase, drama and a passionate embrace are all part of Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite. Let the music captivate you as this adventure enfolds.
• Written at the close of the Second World War, Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony is full of waltzes, marches and spirited melodies that will mesmerize.

• Brahms Danze Ungheresi     nn. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
• Dvorak Concerto per violino
• Prokofiev Romeo e Giulietta: Suite dal balletto

• Brahms Danze Ungheresi     nn. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
• Dvorak Concerto per violino
• Prokofiev Romeo e Giulietta: Suite dal balletto

• Brahms Danze Ungheresi     nn. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
• Dvorak Concerto per violino
• Prokofiev Romeo e Giulietta: Suite dal balletto