James Gaffigan
Saturday, 05. November 2022, 7.00 pm
Munich, Isarphilharmonie
Introduction 5.45 pm
Programme
Joseph Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat Major, Hob.I:105
Interval
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
James Gaffigan, Conductor
Ramón Ortega Quero, Oboe
Mor Biron, Bassoon
Radoslaw Szulc, Violin
Giorgi Kharadze, Cello
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
It is with great regret that Zubin Mehta has to cancel his upcoming engagements with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks due to an acute state of exhaustion. For the concerts in the Isarphilharmonie on Thursday, 3 and Friday, 4 November, with the pianist Seong-Jin Cho, as well as on Saturday, 5 November, the American conductor James Gaffigan has been engaged at short notice. The respective concert programmes remain unchanged.
about the programme
“My Fifth Symphony is an accursed creation. No one understands it.” Only after Mahler’s death did the initial incomprehension change to admiration for this forward-looking piece. Yearning for death and affirmation of life, Weltschmerz and fulfilment, sorrow and joy: all lie side-by-side in this symphony, as so often in Mahler. It opens with a funeral march, its centre is a Ländler followed by a musical declaration of love, and it ends in an apotheosis. James Gaffigan precedes Mahler’s trailblazing sonic universe with Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante, a work no less modern for its own era. By having four solo instruments (oboe, bassoon, violin and cello) stand out from the orchestral tutti, Haydn situates the piece between an instrumental concerto and a symphony – a welcome task for soloists from the ranks of the orchestra.
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