Name: Bartók Schumann
Start: 2025-03-29T19:00:00
Location: Gasteig HP8

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Wild Frang

Munich Philharmonic

Béla Bartók wrote his Divertimento in August 1939, while he was already preparing to emigrate to the USA in view of the increasingly threatening political situation. In the otherwise friendly work, the circumstances of the time are reflected in the dark, towering sound clusters of the second movement. Only two years earlier, in November 1937, Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto had its premiere - 84 years after it was written and abused for propaganda purposes: As part of a pompous Nazi event, Schumann's concerto was launched as an "Aryan" replacement for the banned Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - a plan that fortunately failed. Freed from its unfortunate reception history, the Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Schumann's Violin Concerto. Schumann's 1st Symphony had an easier time of it, and was well received by the audience at its premiere in Leipzig. It is Schumann's most cheerful symphony and seems to reflect spring and the awakening of nature. The Munich Philharmonic will be led through this contrasting program by the Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.