Violinist

Profound

Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz

Phantasies

Lahav Shani & Friends

Frauenkirche Dresden

For his second Festival concert, Lahav Shani moves from the conductor’s podium to the piano. Together with members of the Munich Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, he presents a unique evening of intimate chamber music. The program is dedicated to artists who were persecuted and found a refuge in music, or whose works were banned for ideological reasons – and where could this find a more appropriate place than the crypt of the Frauenkirche, itself a symbol of peace and tolerance! The pianist and composer Ilse Fromm-Michaels was silenced due to her husband’s Jewish family background. In her »Musica larga« of 1944, her voice is heard in a moving Adagio. At the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto, the Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann composed his String Quartet No. 3, shot through with sad beauty. And Dmitri Shostakovich’s only Piano Quintet tells of the inner struggle between persecution and conformism, written four years after the devastating article in »Pravda« which would change the composer’s life forever.

Violinist

Simon Fordham

Events

Past events

Mar 15, 2026

Profound · Munich Philharmonic

Oct 12, 2025

Phantasies · Munich Philharmonic

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Piano Quintet in C minor by Williams

Munich Philharmonic

Violin in Piano Quintet No. 1 by Farrenc

Munich Philharmonic

Violin in Piano Quintet in G Minor by Shostakovich

Munich Philharmonic

Violin in Phantasy Quartet on British Folksongs by Holst

Munich Philharmonic

Violin in Phantasy Quartet by Holst

Munich Philharmonic

Violin in String Quartet in E minor by Smyth

Munich Philharmonic

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