Philharmonic at home II “Classical and modern”
TOSHIO HOSOKAWA Meditation – To the Victims of the Tsunami, March 2011, BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra, JOSEPH HAYDN Lʼisola disabitata (The Deserted Island), overture, Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44
Vilém Veverka oboe, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Alexander Liebreich
• One of the most respected contemporary composers, Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955) and his musical meditation about the natural disaster that struck Japan’s North-East shore in March 2011 • Work commissioned and premiered by the conductor Alexander Liebreich • Oboe concerto by Bernd A. Zimmerman (1918-1970), written in 1952, as a distinctive, virtuoso, polystylistic homage to Igor Stravinsky, worked out to the finest detail • On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the important German composer, a key figure of musical postmodernism • Papa Haydn and two works of his Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) period • Overture to an opera developing the story of two sisters, castaways on a deserted island • An early symphony, sometimes dubbed “Mourning”, probably due to Haydn’s wish for the Adagio to be played at his funeral
