Vladimir Jurowski & Frank Peter Zimmermann
Igor Stravinsky
“Cirkus-Polka für einen jungen Elefanten” für Orchester
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto en Ré – Konzert für Violine und Orchester D-Dur
Franz Schubert
Symphony in C major. D. 944 (“The Great”)
Vladimir Jurowski
Conductor
Vladimir Jurowski - Conductor

Vladimir Jurowski has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2017. He has meanwhile extended his contract until 2027. In parallel, he has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2021.
After receiving training at the Moscow Conservatory The conductor, pianist and musicologist Vladimir Jurowski emigrated to Germany in 1990. Here he continued his studies at the music conservatories in Dresden and Berlin. In 1995 he made his international debut at the British Wexford Festival with Rimski-Korsakov’s Mainacht and in the same year at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Nabucco. Subsequently he was, among other things, First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997- 2001) and Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001-2013). In 2003 Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has been its Principal Conductor since 2007 until 2021. He was also Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov of the Russian Federation until 2021, Artistic Director of the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. He works regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the ensemble unitedberlin.
Vladimir Jurowski has conducted the major orchestras of Europe and North America, including the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
He is a recurring guest conductor in in London, Berlin, Dresden, Luzern, Schleswig-Holstein und Grafenegg as well as at the Rostopowitsch-Festival. Although Vladimir Jurowski is invited as a guest conductor by top orchestras from all over the world, in future he would like to concentrate his activities on that geographical area which is acceptable to him from an ecological point of view.
In 2022/2023 he will perform with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in concerts in various cities in Germany, Italy and Antwerp in the Netherlands. The joint CD recordings of Vladimir Jurowski and the RSB began in 2015 with Alfred Schnittke’s Symphony No. 3, followed by works by Britten, Hindemith, Strauss, Mahler and soon again Schnittke.
Vladimir Jurowski has been the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements, including various international record prizes. In 2016, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Prince Charles at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2018, the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards named him Conductor of the Year. In summer 2020, Jurowski was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the Romanian President in recognition of his work as Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival.
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Violin
Frank Peter Zimmermann - Violin

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
A violin concerto heats up
“The whole orchestra was pounding. A grandiose impression. Unbelievable enthusiasm of the sold-out Philharmonie”, Heinrich Strobel enthused in 1931 after the premiere of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. The “Concerto en ré” is a milestone in the orchestral history of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Stravinsky himself conducted the premiere in Berlin on 23 October 1931 with the Radio Orchestra and soloist Samuil Dushkin. The Berlin Funkstunde concert was one of a whole series of Stravinsky performances by the orchestra at the time. Stravinsky later remembered with praise the second performance of the Violin Concerto with the same instrumentation on 28 October 1932. Stravinsky’s good-natured caricature of the legendary impresario Sergei Diaghilev as an elephant fits in with this. In a china shop?
Schubert was not so lucky during his lifetime. It was only from his estate that the Symphony in C major was premiered by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, after Robert Schumann had found it at Schubert’s brother Ferdinand’s home. Today, it bears witness to Schubert’s complete mastery, who, by virtue of his own inspiration, succeeded in stepping out of the shadow of the admired Beethoven.
Concert introduction: 3.10 p.m., South Foyer, concert introduction by Steffen Georgi
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