The guest artist for the evening, Olga Kern, was born into a family of musicians with Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in its lineage. She has taken part in numerous competitions, finishing winner or receiving a special prize on almost every occasion. After a gap of 32 years, she was the first woman to win a gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Ever since, she has been on the roster of a leading independent record label. For this performance, she will play a concerto in whi...ch the piano is joined by the trumpet as a solo instrument. The trumpet part, which underlines the humorous and sarcastic nature of the work, will be played by the orchestra’s outstanding principal trumpeter László Tóth. As an introduction, the orchestra will play the overture to Richard Wagner’s great romantic opera Tannhäuser, in which the two spiritual seams running through the work as a whole are set against each other: the clash of transcendental faith with themes of earthly pleasure. The latter are apparent in the vibrant, vision-like central portion, the orchestration of which placed this among the most modern works of its age. The second half of the evening’s concert features a large-scale “essay” by Richard Strauss, one of the key figures of the avant-garde at the end of the 19th century, who conjured sounds from the orchestra that had never been heard before. With Also sprach Zarathustra, his symphonic tone poem completed in 1896, the composer undertook no lesser task than to summarise the most essential elements of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical treatise of the same name on the great questions of human existence. The subject provided an excellent opportunity for the 32-year-old composer to express these ideas through his own distinctive musical means, while simultaneously displaying his inimitable virtuosity in the handling of the orchestra. Presented by: Hungarian National Philharmonic
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