Munich Philharmonic: Brahms / DvořákAndrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor), Hilary Hahn (violin)
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With his last symphony, Antonín Dvořák immortalised himself. Ever since its premiere, Dvořák’s From the New World has been a classical all-time favourite. The symphony even made it into space, when Neil Armstrong took a recording of the work to the moon in June 1969.
This event is in the past.
With his last symphony, Antonín Dvořák immortalised himself. Ever since its premiere, Dvořák’s From the New World has been a classical all-time favourite. The symphony even made it into space, when Neil Armstrong took a recording of the work to the moon in June 1969.
Even though Dvořák’s Ninth has been appropriated as a work of American national music, it actually represents a synthesis of a diversity of influences. And yet, being a veritable melting pot does make it very much American. “This guy has more ideas than all of us”, Johannes Brahms apparently remarked about Dvořák. But Brahms was not short of marvellous ideas himself, as demonstrated by the violin concerto he wrote for Joseph Joachim in 1878.
With the American violinist Hilary Hahn, one of the great violin virtuosos of our time, and the South American conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, this is the Munich Philharmonic’s final Americas-themed concert of the season.
Programme
- Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77
- Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95, Z nového svĕta (From the New World)
In connection MPhil Late in Hall E
