Munich Philharmonic: Triano / Korngold / StraussManfred Honeck (conductor), María Dueñas (violin)
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Tenerife-born Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano has two strings to her bow, having carved out a successful career as both conductor and composer. Manfred Honeck already conducted an acclaimed Ramos Triano world premiere in Pittsburgh in April 2022. With Balmung, he now brings another new work by the composer to Munich.
This event is in the past.
Tenerife-born Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano has two strings to her bow, having carved out a successful career as both conductor and composer. Manfred Honeck already conducted an acclaimed Ramos Triano world premiere in Pittsburgh in April 2022. With Balmung, he now brings another new work by the composer to Munich.
- María Dueñas, violin
- Manfred Honeck, conductor
Admired as a child prodigy in his native Vienna, Erich Wolfgang Korngold emigrated to the USA in the mid-1930s, where he supplied Hollywood with peerless film music. In 1945, the composer turned some of his ideas from earlier film scores into a violin concerto, describing his late romantic work as being “contemplated rather for a Caruso of the violin than for a Paganini”. The young Spanish violinist María Dueñas, who combines the tonal sensuality of a Caruso with the technical perfection of a Paganini, makes her debut in Munich with this work. In Strauss’ opera Elektra, the orchestra plays the secret leading role. It’s remarkable, therefore, no one before Manfred Honeck had created a suite from the opera’s music, which can now also be heard for the first time in Strauss’ native city.
Programme
- Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano: “Balmung” (commissioned work and world premiere)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
- Richard Strauss: “Elektra”, symphonic suite for large orchestra (compiled by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille)
