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With overflowing virtuosity
Hilary Hahn
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards honor exceptional recordings, artists, and labels. Violinist Hilary Hahn received the coveted 2024 award for her album of Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas. “I was recovering from a nerve injury, and during that time, knowing that people could listen to the music even when I wasn’t on stage meant a lot to me.” Now the extraordinary violinist is back on stage, delighting her audience with the magic of live concerts, which make the unifying power of music in a shared space and moment even more intense.
Hilary Hahn comes to the Isarphilharmonie with Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, which celebrates melody, simplicity, and at the same time overflowing virtuosity. By her side: the Philharmonia Orchestra London with its chief conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who has already built an impressive career on the podium by his late thirties. On his guest appearances, the Finnish conductor often brings a musical message from his Scandinavian homeland – in Munich, the symphonic poem En Saga by Jean Sibelius.
“Sibelius’s music tells of politics, nature, people, and how desperate we once were,” Rouvali said in an interview with BR-Klassik. “Nowadays it is different; in 2018, the UN finally declared us the happiest nation in the world.” And this happiness the conductor gladly shares in the concert hall! The evening concludes with the thrilling and vibrantly alive Symphonic Dances – Rachmaninoff’s brilliant last work, composed in 1940 on Long Island.
Program and cast
Philharmonia Orchestra London
Hilary Hahn, Violin
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Conductor
Program
Sibelius: En Saga op. 9
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor op. 63
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances op. 45
Isar Philharmonic
Isarphilharmonie
Munich’s most modern concert hall
Since the Isarphilharmonie opened in October 2021, it has quickly gained a reputation for its special atmosphere and excellent sound. The list of orchestras performing here reads like a veritable Who’s Who, headed by the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. High profile concert agencies see the auditorium as the perfect place for guest appearances by national and international orchestras and it also hosts jazz productions and large-scale popular music concerts of all genres.
But the Isarphilharmonie also has another string to its bow: it can be blacked out, making it the ideal venue for film screenings – with or without orchestral accompaniment. The auditorium is equipped with a large screen and top-class cinematic sound systems.
Architecture & acoustics
The building that houses the Isarphilharmonie is a steel structure with an internal volume of nearly 60,000 cubic metres. The concert hall itself can accommodate almost 2000 guests and is made from prefabricated solid wood elements. The walls are clad with black-stained softwood panels, while the stage and floors are made from light cedar wood for a striking contrast. The Isarphilharmonie at Gasteig HP8 was built by the general contractor NÜSSLI to the plans of architects gmp – Gerkan, Marg und Partner.
The Isarphilharmonie acoustics were created by Nagata Acoustics International – the team led by star acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota – who were also involved with the construction of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Philharmonie de Paris.
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