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
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.
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