Conductor:
Featuring:
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – excerpts from incidental music
Ibert
Flute Concerto
Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in C major (“Great”), D. 944
Michael Martin Kofler has been a solo flautist for the Munich Philharmonic since the age of 21, playing under the successive music directors Sergiu Celibidache, James Levine, Christian Thielemann and Lorin Maazel. As a solo performer, he likewise performs with world-famous orchestras, and for this concert in Budapest will play one of the best-known and deservedly popular flute concertos in the repertoire. The first half of the concert features one of the most miraculous compositions in music history. Mendelssohn was barely 17 years old when he wrote his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream with its flood of magical new colours and characters, to which he would later add further movements. It is interesting that the overture was written two years before the last “Great” Symphony in C major by Franz Schubert, the composer who rested on the threshold between the Vienna Classical and Romantic eras. It is a work which Robert Schumann described as being of “heavenly length” – naturally with the emphasis on the heavenly.
Presented by: Hungarian National Philharmonic
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