Hope and resistance in the midst of darkness. With this joint concert, members of the Munich Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra commemorate all artists who found refuge in their art in the threatening presence of oppression and persecution or who were not allowed to perform for ideological reasons. For example, the renowned pianist Ilse Fromm-Michaels, who performed with conductors such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Arthur Nikisch, was banned from performing because her husband was of Jewish descent. The National Socialists took a similar approach with the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, which were removed from all concert programs. The Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. There he wrote his one-movement third string quartet, a work that is deeply moving in its desperate beauty. The G minor piano quintet by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1940 and reflects the oppressive atmosphere of that time. It is a broken music full of suppressed emotions that leads through the depths of human nature. An intense and captivating listening experience.

Ilse Fromm-Michaels

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May 4, 2025

On The 80th Anniversary Of Liberation · Munich Philharmonic

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