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Johannes Kalitzke & Ilya Gringolts

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Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 20:00
As can only be expected, Nicolaus Richter de Vroe is fully au fait with the violin. After all, this Halle-born composer is a trained violinist and played in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for more than 30 years. He wrote his new violin concerto for Ilya Gringolts, a violinist celebrated in the concert hall for his uncompromising and expressive style. No less uncompromising and expressive is Iannis Xenakis’s Jalons (Milestones), a work frequently reminiscent of electro-acoustic music that was written... Read full text

Keywords: Contemporary, Symphony Concert, World Premiere

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Musicians

Johannes KalitzkeConductor
Ilya GringoltsViolin
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Iannis Xenakis“Jalons” for 15 Instrumentalists
Milica Djordjevic“Mit o ptici” for choir and orchestra (world premiere) commissioned by Bavarian Radio’s musica viva series
Nicolaus Richter de VroeViolin concerto (world premiere) commissioned by Bavarian Radio’s musica viva series, with the kind support of the Freunde des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks e.V.
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