Munich Philharmonic: Sibelius / ShostakovichTugan Sokhiev (conductor), Naoka Aoki (violin)
The world premiere of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in 1905, conducted by Richard Strauss was, in effect, the birth of a masterpiece at the second try. Two years earlier, the first version fell flat with both the audience and the critics at its premiere in Helsinki. No-one would have guessed that the work would one day become a concert hall favourite.
The world premiere of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in 1905, conducted by Richard Strauss was, in effect, the birth of a masterpiece at the second try. Two years earlier, the first version fell flat with both the audience and the critics at its premiere in Helsinki. No-one would have guessed that the work would one day become a concert hall favourite.
- Naoka Aoki, violin
- Munich Philharmonic
- Tugan Sokhiev, conductor
Naoka Aoki, concert master of the Munich Philharmonic since 2021, now appears for the first time as a soloist in front of her fellow orchestra musicians for the finale of this Sibelius-themed season.
The applause at the world premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 seemed to never want to end. While the bureaucrats in charge of Stalinist cultural policy understood the work as the composer’s commitment to socialist realism, Shostakovich’s true thoughts are hidden between the lines. Tugan Sokhiev embarks on a search for clues in this opus.
Programme
- Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
- Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47
