15. July 2017

Dates & Tickets

Fabio Luisi, Conductor
InMo Yang, Violin
Philharmonia Zurich


RICHARD STRAUSS
Don Juan, Op. 20

NICCOLÓ PAGANINI
Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major, Op. 6

RICHARD STRAUSS
A Hero's Life, Op. 40

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    Introduction 45 min before the performance.
Music Direction:
Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi hails from Genoa. He is the general music director of the Opernhaus Zürich, the principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and music director designate of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, a post he will take up in 2020. From 2011-2017, Fabio Luisi was principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and from 2005-2013 principal conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, as well as general music director of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Sächsische Staatsoper (2007-2010), artistic director and principal conductor of the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig (1999-2007), and music director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1997-2002). With the latter, he made numerous CD recordings (Poulenc, Respighi, Mahler, Liszt, a recording of the complete symphonic works of Arthur Honegger, and Verdi’s Jérusalem und Alzira). He is music director of the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca (Apulia) and has appeared as guest conductor with numerous renowned ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the NHK Tokio, the Münchener Philharmoniker, the Filarmonica della Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, and the Saito Kinen Orchestra, as well as with various prominent opera orchestras. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival with performances of Richard Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae und Die Ägyptische Helena. His most important appearances at the Opernhaus Zürich include, among others, the new productions of three Bellini operas, as well as Rigoletto, Fidelio, Wozzeck and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. Important CD recordings include Verdi’s Aroldo, Bellini’s I puritani and I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and the complete symphonies of Robert Schumann, as well as the symphonies and the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln by Franz Schmidt, the largely forgotten Austrian composer. In addition, he has recorded various symphonic poems by Richard Strauss, and a lauded reading of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 with the Staatskapelle Dresden. His recordings of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra won Grammy awards. He received the Premio Franco Abbiati, the coveted Italian critics’ prize, in 2013, and in 2014 won the Grifo d’Oro from the city of Genoa. He was awarded the Anton Bruckner Ring by the Wiener Symphoniker, and is a Cavalier of the Italian Republic. The «Philharmonia Records» recording label, founded by the Philharmonia Zürich in 2015, has issued CD recordings of works by Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Rachmaninoff, Bruckner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Frank Martin under Fabio Luisi’s musical director, as well as DVD records of Rigoletto (stage direction: Tatjana Gürbaca), Wozzeck (stage direction: Andreas Homoki), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (stage direction: Christof Loy), the Messa da Requiem (stage direction /choreography: Christian Spuck), and Das Land des Lächelns (stage direction: Andreas Homoki).

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Cast


Violine InMo Yang

InMo Yang

Inmo Yang is a violinist of rare depth and poetic insight, recognized internationally for his compelling sound, emotional precision, and remarkable technique. Hailed by The Boston Globe for his «seamless technique and a tender warmth of tone», Yang has emerged as one of the most distinctive violinists of his time. Yang’s solo career has brought him to major stages around the world, performing with the New York Philharmonic, LA Phil, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Dresdner Philharmonie, Berliner Barock Solisten on tour, Orchestre National de France, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among others. He has collaborated with many of today’s most esteemed conductors, including Marin Alsop, Myung-whun Chung, Roberto Gonzales-Monjas, Hannu Lintu, Tianyi Lu, Fabio Luisi, Jonathan Nott, Sakari Oramo, Kristiina Poska, John Storgårds, Osmo Vänskä, and Jaap van Zweden. Launching the season on a high note with his sold-out BBC Proms debut with Marie Jacquot and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the 2025/26 season sees several debut appearances with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Münchner Symphoniker, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and Macao Orchestra. During this season, he returns to BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Festival Strings Lucerne for a subscription debut following their successful Asia tour a year prior, as well as Carnegie Hall for chamber music concert with Kirill Gerstein. He first captured global attention by winning the 2015 Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa – the first prize awarded since 2006 – where he also received special distinctions for best performance of a contemporary piece and audience favorite. In 2022, he further solidified his standing with the First Prize at the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki. Inmo released his second Deutsche Grammophon album «The Genetics of Strings» in 2021. His debut album – «24 Caprices by N. Paganini» – was recorded live as part of the Kumho Art Hall residency and released under the same label in 2019. Inmo studied with Namyoon Kim at Korea National University of Arts, Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and Antje Weithaas both at Kronberg Academy and Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he currently resides in. Inmo Yang plays a violin made by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in Cremona in 1743, known as the «Carrodus», on generous loan from a member of the Stretton Society.

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Abstract

"A captivating artist: at times lovely, then upsetting, sometimes plain, then flowery again - and always controlled", so The Boston Globe described the game of the Korean violinist InMo Yang, who won the first prize at the prestigious Paganini Competition in Genoa in 2015. Since then the artist performs in the great halls worldwide; 2016 he gave his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York in 2016. Together with Fabio Luisi and the Philharmonia Zurich the young, talented artist will interpret the First Violin Concerto by Paganini.

Repeatedly the devilishly difficult virtuoso gesture flashes by in this 1818 enden concert that made the violinist Paganini a legend. Virtuoso passages for each orchestra offer the tone poems of Richard Strauss: With Don Juan concert a big cast of the only 24-year-old composer is on the program. The ten years later resulting work Ein Heldleben is one of the most mature and most performed symphonic poems by Strauss.

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