Featuring: Gidon Kremer – violin Conductor: Iván Fischer R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – first sequence of waltzes Bartók: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra Stravinsky: Rite of Spring Shortly after its world premiere in Dresden, the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss was staged in Budapest in May 1911, and received over a hundred performances at the Pest Opera House during the composer’s lifetime. The opera, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is set in the time of... Maria Theresa, even though the waltz, which Strauss uses to evoke the nostalgia of the golden era of the Monarchy in music, didn’t exist before the 1820s. In 1944, Strauss gathered together the waltzes from the first two acts to make a concert piece. “The score of the violin concerto was finished on February 5th. […] I have locked it into my draw, I do not know whether I will destroy it or just leave it locked away until it is discovered after my death”, wrote Bartók about his first violin concerto, which he wrote for Stefi Geyer who rejected his amorous advances. He preserved the manuscript until his death and it was finally performed in Basel in 1958 with conductor Paul Sacher, fifty years after it was completed. Today’s soloist is Gidon Kremer. Born in Riga, he is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of our time. He first exploded onto the international music scene over thirty years ago, and like many artists from the Soviet Union who later became world famous, he enjoyed one of his first foreign successes in Budapest.
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