Wagner Strauss Bartók by Various, De (2023/2023), Director Thomas Guggeis, Isarphilharmonie, Múnich, Alemania

The prelude to Wagner's Liebesrank opera begins with the most famous chord in opera history, the notorious »Tristan chord«, a dissonant harmony that influenced all of modern music like a primordial cell. Richard Strauss could not escape this either, either as an opera composer or as the creator of over 42 orchestral songs. As an aftertaste of last year's Strauss focus, Anja Harteros presents a selection of his compositions for voice with orchestral accompaniment. Béla Bartók, the progenitor of Hungarian modernism, found it difficult to gain a foothold in exile in America. His "Concerto for Orchestra" describes his inner conflict between the old and the new world. The young conductor Thomas Guggeis from Lower Bavaria will be on the podium for the first time. He has been Staatskapellmeister in Berlin since 2020. The Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian stands in for Anja Harteros, who unfortunately had to cancel her participation in the concerts for personal reasons. In addition to Richard Strauss' "Four Last Songs", Asmik Grigorian will also interpret Liebestod from Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" in the Isarphilharmonie.