Iván Fischer

Thursday

April 2022

8:00 pm

Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal

Subscription D

Friday

April 2022

8:00 pm

Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal

Subscription D

Programme

Hugo Wolf

Harfenspieler 1

Hugo Wolf

Harfenspieler 2

Hugo Wolf

Harfenspieler 3

Hugo Wolf

Gebet

Hugo Wolf

Gesang Weylas

Hugo Wolf

Anakreons Grab

Hugo Wolf

Der Rattenfänger

Interval

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 1 in D major

Performers

Iván Fischer conductor

Hanno Müller-Brachmann baritone

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Information about the programme

They were born in the same year (1860), enrolled at Vienna Conservatory at the same time and temporarily lived in the same flat: Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf. Then their paths led them in completely different directions: Mahler advanced to become the most successful conductor and greatest symphonist of his era, while Wolf, having failed in other genres, devoted his creative energy to the art song, in which field he left behind a uniquely vibrant oeuvre. As was common in his day, Wolf orchestrated several of his own lieder. Our programme reunites these two disparate contemporaries and shows what they composed at the same time: Mahler’s First and Wolf’s settings of Goethe and Mörike were all written around the year 1888.