Bartók und Schumann mit Dirigentin Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

In the organizer's words:

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 this otherwise friendly work, the circumstances of the time are reflected in the dark, towering clusters of sound in the second movement. Only two years earlier, in November 1937, Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto was premiered - 84 years after it was written and misused for propaganda purposes: As part of a pompous Nazi event, Schumann's concerto was launched as an "Aryan" replacement for the ostracized 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, which was well received by the audience at its premiere in Leipzig, had an easier time of it. It is Schumann's most cheerful symphony and seems to reflect spring and the awakening of nature. The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra will be led through this contrasting program by Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

BéLA BARTóK
Divertimento for string orchestra
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 "Spring Symphony"

Conductor MIRGA GRAžINYTė-TYLA
Violin VILDE FRANG