Iván Fischer & Tabea Zimmermann

Programme

Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier TrV 227, op. 59 - Walzerfolge No. 2

William Walton
Viola Concerto (1962)

Interval

Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116

Iván Fischer, Conductor

Tabea Zimmermann, Viola

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

This season Tabea Zimmermann, the BRSO’s artist-in-residence, will present an entire series of special concertos for her instrument, the viola. One is William Walton’s Viola Concerto, composed for Lionel Tertis in 1928-29 at the suggestion of the English conductor Thomas Beecham. Tertis, however, felt unequal to its severe demands, and the première was entrusted to Paul Hindemith, a violist who had already written several pieces for his own use. This rarely heard composition will now be played by one of the supreme violists of our time, forming an exciting foil to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra of 1943. The conductor is the seasoned Bartók specialist Iván Fischer.

Artist in Residence: Tabea Zimmermann

Violist Tabea Zimmermann inspires audiences around the world with her wonderful, dark timbre viola sound and her impressive playing technique. Together with her as artist in residence, we will perform three diverse concert programs – predominantly with works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

More information and concerts

Impressions from the rehearsals