Iván Fischer & Tabea Zimmermann

Thursday

15

December 2022

8:00 pm

Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie

Subscription A

Friday

16

December 2022

8:00 pm

Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie

Subscription A

Programme

Richard Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier TrV 227, op. 59 – Walzerfolge No. 2

William Walton

Concerto for viola and orchestra

Interval

Béla Bartók

Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116

Performers

Iván Fischer conductor

Tabea Zimmermann viola

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Concert video

Information about the programme

This season Tabea Zimmermann, the BRSO’s artist-in-residence, will present an entire series of special concertos for her instrument, the viola. One is William Walton’s Viola Concerto, composed for Lionel Tertis in 1928-29 at the suggestion of the English conductor Thomas Beecham. Tertis, however, felt unequal to its severe demands, and the première was entrusted to Paul Hindemith, a violist who had already written several pieces for his own use. This rarely heard composition will now be played by one of the supreme violists of our time, forming an exciting foil to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra of 1943. The conductor is the seasoned Bartók specialist Iván Fischer.