Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Erl
As part of the program track Zwischentöne - Music between the festivals
Program
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Overture op. 21
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor op. 64
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 36
Karina Canellakis was born in New York City. She studied violin at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. After encouragement from Simon Rattle, she turned to conducting and studied this subject at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She has been Chief Conductor of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest since 2019 and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021. She was Principal Guest Conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin from 2019 to 2023 and Artist in Residence at the Vienna Musikverein in 2023/24. She has conducted other major orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She has also made guest appearances at renowned opera houses in Europe and the USA.
Albena Danailova was born in Sofia. She studied violin at the Rostock University of Music and Drama and in Hamburg with Petru Munteanu and has won prizes at numerous competitions. in 2001, she was engaged by the Bavarian State Orchestra, where she rose to the position of principal first violin and subsequently first concertmaster. She held the same position in the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2003/04 season. She has been concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 2008 and concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra since 2011. As a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, she regularly performs on concert stages in Europe, Japan, Israel and the USA. She has performed with renowned orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Andris Nelsons, etc. She has been a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2019.
Hardly any other orchestra is more closely and enduringly associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than the Vienna Philharmonic. Performers and conductors emphasize the "Viennese sound" as an outstanding quality feature of the orchestra, which was founded in 1842. With over 40 concerts a year in Vienna, performances at the Salzburg Festival since 1922 and more than 50 international guest appearances, the Vienna Philharmonic is one of the world's leading orchestras. They fascinate audiences with their deliberately cultivated homogeneity of music-making, passed on from one generation to the next, their unique history and basic democratic structure, which places artistic and organizational decisions in the hands of the orchestra members, as well as their close symbiosis with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. The Vienna Philharmonic has received numerous awards and accolades.