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What Jean Sibelius is to Finland, Edward Elgar is to England: both composers gave their country its own national musical language. With his Lemminkäinen Suite, Sibelius transports us to the world of Finnish legends. He tells of the adventures of a young, high-spirited hero in music that is as impassioned as it is sincere. Edward Elgar’s violin concerto reflects the values of Victorian England – profound, romantic, noble. The violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, widely acclaimed for his selfless musicality, performs the concerto under the direction of Dima Slobodeniouk, who steps in for Kirill Petrenko.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Dima Slobodeniouk conductor (replacing Kirill Petrenko)
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
Programme
Edward Elgar
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, op. 61
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
Interval
Jean Sibelius
Lemminkäinen Suite, op. 22
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series I: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series H: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Born and raised in Moscow, Dima Slobodeniouk received his musical training – initially as a violinist – in his home city and in Finland. From 1994, he took conducting lessons with Atso Almila and furthered his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Leif Segerstam, Jorma Panula and Esa-Pekka Salonen. He was chief conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia from 2013 to 2022 and conductor of Sinfonia Lahti (Finland) and the Sibelius Festival, also held in Lahti, from 2016 to 2021.
Dima Slobodeniouk has made guest appearances with renowned orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Dima Slobodeniouk made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2018 with works by Jean Sibelius, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as a tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and violinist Augustin Hadelich. Dima Slobodeniouk has also worked with Frank Peter Zimmermann on several occasions.
Frank Peter Zimmermann is one of the most important violinists of our time. Since his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the age of just 20, he has given a number of memorable concerts with the orchestra, including the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Violin Concerto en sour dine in 2003, both Bartók concertos in 2016 and Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto under the baton of Kirill Petrenko in 2020. He is frequently praised by the international press for his deep musicality and unmistakable tone – for which he has coined the term: the “perfume of a violinist.”
“My father had a huge LP collection,” Zimmermann explains, “and I listened to the great violinists as a child. Oistrakh was my great role model; later also Grumiaux for Mozart and Bach – and Nathan Milstein. These great masters certainly influenced me a lot.”
Frank Peter Zimmermann, who gave his first concert with an orchestra at the age of ten, studied with Valery Gradow, Saschko Gawriloff and Hermann Krebbers. His exceptional career began in 1983 and has taken him to all the leading international orchestras in all the major concert halls in Europe, America, Asia and Australia – including the Berliner Philharmoniker, with whom he has worked regularly for 40 years. He is also a much-sought-after chamber musician, playing in the Zimmermann Trio with violist Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra, as well as with other ensembles.
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