january, 2025

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Julia Fischer violin Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Modest Mussorgsky: Ivanova noch' na lïsoy gore »A Night on Bald Mountain« Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D
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Event Details
Modest Mussorgsky: Ivanova noch’ na lïsoy gore »A Night on Bald Mountain«
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 35
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116
VENUE PROGRAMME NOTE:
Tchaikovsky wrote only one violin concerto. At its premiere in Vienna in 1881, it met with mixed opinions. The notorious music critic Eduard Hanslick had nothing but scorn for it. It undoubtedly places the highest demands on the soloists; the original dedicatee, the famous Russian violinist Leopold Auer, even considered it unplayable. In addition, it requires great sensitivity, especially in the second movement, a canzonetta, about which Tchaikovsky’s pen pal and patron Nadezhda von Meck wrote: “How much poetry and what longing in these sons voilés, the mysterious tones.” One critic described Julia Fischer’s interpretation of the work as “simply stunning,” “soulful and romantic without becoming sentimental.” At the Vienna Konzerthaus, she tackles the challenging work together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under its chief conductor Vasily Petrenko. The concert is preceded by Mussorgsky’s colorful, orgiastic symphonic poem “A Night on Bald Mountain.” The second half of the concert features Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a life-affirming, powerful piece, even though it was written in the last years of the composer’s life.
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Wiener Konzerthaus, Great Hall
Wiener Konzerthaus Lothringerstraße 20, 1037 Wien