Munich Symphony Orchestra: Smetana / Gershwin / DvořákAlondra de la Parra (conductor), Frank Dupree (piano)
This event is in the past.
The concert programme of the Munich Symphony Orchestra spans an arc between Bohemia and New York.
This event is in the past.
The concert programme of the Munich Symphony Orchestra spans an arc between Bohemia and New York.
The lucrative job offer he received from the National Conservatory of Music was not without ulterior motives: Antonín Dvořák was to inject his own flavour to the music of America. His famous Ninth became the high point of this mission. The composer’s ingenuity is particularly apparent in this opus. The fact that it reflects both Bohemian folklore and spirituals was not to every creative’s taste in the US, but Dvořák was not to be deterred by the racism prevalent at the time and the work was premiered in 1893 by the New York Philharmonic to sensational acclaim.
At the Isarphilharmonie, Alondra de la Parra, who was born in New York some 90 years later, will interpret the work with the Munich Symphony Orchestra after exploring the composer’s Bohemian roots with Smetana’s “Vltava” (The Moldau). Rounding off the New York-themed evening is Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F major, played by jazz musician and classical pianist Frank Dupree. His originally titled “New York Concerto” typifies, Gershwin’s musical style, characterised by America’s myriad musical styles – from dance rhythms and jazz to Broadway songs – set to late romantic harmonies.
- Frank Dupree, piano
- Alondra de la Parra, conductor
Programme
- Bedřich Smetana: “Vltava” (The Moldau) – symphonic poem from “Ms last” (My Fatherland)
- George Gershwin: Concerto in F
- Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 “From the New World”
