Mozart Schostakowitsch

26. September 2021

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ouverture zur Oper «Die Zauberflöte»

Krzysztof Penderecki
«Concerto doppio» für Violine, Violoncello und Orchester

Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Sinfonie Nr. 10

  • Duration :
    approx. 1 H. 45 Min. Inkl. Pause after approx. 35 Min.
  • More information:
    Introduction 45 min before the performance.

Music Direction:
Krzysztof Urbański

Krzysztof Urbański

Krzysztof Urbański is Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. In addition, he is an internationally sought-after guest conductor performing with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Vienna Symphony, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington. More recently, he made his debuts with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Orchestre de Paris and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. From 2010 to 2017, he was principal conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, which then named him honorary conductor. He also served as principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra for four seasons starting in 2012. In June 2015, he received the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the first conductor ever to do so. Urbański's collaboration with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester is now documented on seven CDs with works by Lutosławski, Dvořák, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Strauss. In addition, Urbański's discography includes a recording of Martinů's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sol Gabetta.

Orchestra:
Philharmonia Zürich

Philharmonia Zürich

1985 entstand in Folge der Trennung des traditionsreichen Tonhalle- und Theaterorchesters das Orchester der Oper Zürich. 2012, mit Beginn der Intendanz von Andreas Homoki und dem Amtsantritt des neuen Generalmusikdirektors Fabio Luisi, wird das Orchester der Oper Zürich zur Philharmonia Zürich. Pro Saison ist das Orchester in rund 250 Opern- und Ballettvorstellungen des Opernhauses Zürich zu hören. Als Podium für das Konzertrepertoire werden zusätzlich die Philharmonischen Konzerte veranstaltet. Soiréen und Kammermusikmatinéen ergänzen das künstlerische Spektrum des Orchesters. Bevor Fabio Luisi mit der Saison 2012/13 als Generalmusikdirektor die künstlerische Leitung des Orchesters übernommen hat, haben u. a. Franz Welser-Möst (1995-2008, ab 2005 als Generalmusikdirektor) und zuletzt Daniele Gatti als Chefdirigent (2009-2012) das Orchester geleitet. 2000/01 fanden die Beständigkeit der Leistungen des Orchesters der Oper Zürich und die Breite seines Könnens mit der Wahl zum «Orchester des Jahres» in der Umfrage der Zeitschrift «Opernwelt» weit verbreitete internationale Anerkennung.

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Jussen & Rustioni8 Feb 2026

Abstract

In the first concert of the new season, Krzysztof Urbański makes his debut on the podium of the Philharmonia Zurich. With youthful charisma and dynamic performances, the Polish conductor has attracted attention from some of the world's most important orchestras over the past decade: when he first led the Berliner Philharmoniker at the age of 31, he was already Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Since 2015, he has been principal guest conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, with whom he has recorded 20th-century masterpieces such as Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps and Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, among others. He now performs Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, written in 1953, at the Opernhaus Zürich. Together with Bartlomiej Niziol and Lev Sivkov, concertmaster and principal cellist of the Philharmonia Zurich, he will also perform a double concerto by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who died in 2020. The Concerto doppio, which premiered in Vienna in 2012, was written during Penderecki's late creative phase, when the former avant-gardist was interested in classical forms and composed in a style that made him popular beyond the confines of new music connoisseurs.

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