Bayerisches Staatsorchester / Vilde Frang / Vladimir Jurowski
Wagner: Prelude to »Tristan und Isolde« / Berg: Violin Concerto / Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Heart, soul and alpine air
With its seductive sound, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester leaves audiences in raptures not only in Munich but everywhere they go. Under its chief conductor Vladimir Jurowski, the historically important orchestra – having been formed as a court orchestra more than 500 years ago – now comes to the Elbphilharmonie. Fittingly, the programme features Richard Strauss, the ultimate Bavarian composer. The soloist for the evening is the star Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang.
»I wanted for once to compose just as the cow gives milk,« Strauss once joked about his »An Alpine Symphony«. The mammoth work depicts a full mountain hike, complete with summit cross, thunderstorm and, yes, alpine pastures and cow’s bells. The composer’s admiration for the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche also shines through.
With his virtuosic treatment of the orchestra, Strauss makes direct reference to Richard Wagner, whose overture to the opera »Tristan und Isolde« opens the concert. The latter injected so much heart and soul into the music that he feared it might drive people insane. And positioned between those two works is Alban Berg’s moving Violin Concerto »To the Memory of an Angel«, one of the most personal pieces of music ever written.
Performers
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Vilde Frang violin
conductor Vladimir Jurowski
Programme
Richard Wagner
Prelude to »Tristan und Isolde« WWV 90
Alban Berg
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra »To the Memory of an Angel«
– Interval –
Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64
Encore:
Richard Wagner
Vorspiel zum 3. Akt zu »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg« WWV 96
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