Munich Philharmonic: Dvořák / Henze / StravinskyPetr Popelka (conductor), Isabelle Faust (violin)
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Hans Werner Henze would have celebrated his 100th birthday on 1 July 2026. One of the most important German composers of the 20th century and the founder of the Munich Biennale, he worked with the Munich Philharmonic on several occasions. The orchestra remembers the composer, who died in 2012, with a performance of Sebastian im Traum, one of his last orchestral works.
This event is in the past.
Hans Werner Henze would have celebrated his 100th birthday on 1 July 2026. One of the most important German composers of the 20th century and the founder of the Munich Biennale, he worked with the Munich Philharmonic on several occasions. The orchestra remembers the composer, who died in 2012, with a performance of Sebastian im Traum, one of his last orchestral works.
Inspired by the often enigmatic, visionary poems of Georg Trakl, Henze conjures up a floating, dreamlike world of sound in his Salzburger Nachtmusik – at times delicate and lyrical, at times dark and agitated.
Isabelle Faust and Petr Popelka open the concert with Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. In this work from his Slavic period, the Czech national composer turned to the musical tradition of Bohemia. Igor Stravinsky’s colourfully orchestrated orchestral suite to L’Oiseau de feu also bears strong references to the folklore of his home country. Themes from archaic folk music and progressive rhythms characterise the Russian composer’s “breakthrough work”, with which also laid the foundation for his later avant-garde compositions.
Programme
- Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 53
- Hans Werner Henze: Sebastian im Traum (The Dream of Sebastian), based on a poem by Georg Trakl
- Igor Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), orchestral suite from 1919
