Munich Philharmonic: Escaich / RachmaninoffSemyon Bychkov (conductor), Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
This event is in the past.
The very first notes that rang out in the Isarphilharmonie in October 2021 stemmed from the pen of Thierry Escaich, when the Munich Philharmonic inaugurated its new venue with his dazzling Arising Dances. Escaich’s music is a special focus of this season’s programme.
This event is in the past.
The very first notes that rang out in the Isarphilharmonie in October 2021 stemmed from the pen of Thierry Escaich, when the Munich Philharmonic inaugurated its new venue with his dazzling Arising Dances. Escaich’s music is a special focus of this season’s programme.
Attention: Unfortunately, Semyon Bychkov had to cancel the concerts on September 20 and 21 at short notice on medical advice. The Munich Philharmonic is very grateful that Dima Slobodeniouk will step in and take over the originally planned concert program unchanged.
- Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Semyon BychkovDima Slobodeniouk, conductor- MPhil
Escaich’s new piano concerto, Etudes symphoniques, will be interpreted by the world-renowned young South Korean poet on the piano Seong-Jin Cho. Like Thierry Escaich, Sergei Rachmaninoff was both organ virtuoso and composer. The latter, torn between his dual roles of instrumentalist and composer throughout his life, penned his Symphony No 2 in a phase of particular doubt and inner conflict. With its melodic and tonal opulence, Rachmaninoff seems to have wanted to defy the stylistic upheavals at the beginning of the 20th century. How lucky for us, given the rapturous wealth of sound he conjured up!
Programme
- Thierry Escaich: “Etudes symphoniques” for piano and orchestra (commissioned work, German premiere)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27
