The orchestra is celebrating its anniversary at the very place where the inaugural concert of the Wiener Symphoniker took place 125 years ago. The orchestra includes a work from the first programme, performed on 30 October 1900 in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein, in its current anniversary concert: Wagner's symphonic rarity, the Faust Overture. Just as in Ferdinand Löwe's founding concert, 125 years later the orchestra will be conducted on its birthday by its principal conductor, Petr Popelka, who will conduct two other works that are memorable in the history of the orchestra. Both Berg's Seven Early Songs and Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, written for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who was wounded in the First World War, were premiered by the Wiener Symphoniker (in 1928 and 1932 respectively). The birthday celebrations will be crowned by Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, a work that has been performed a record-breaking 282 (!) times in the orchestra's 125-year history.

Interpreters

Conductor
Petr Popelka
Soprano
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Piano
Anna Vinnitskaya
Wiener Symphoniker

Programme

— Intermission —
"Seven Early Songs" for high voice and orchestra Alban Berg

1. "Nacht"
3. "Die Nachtigall"
5. "Im Zimmer"
6. "Liebesode"
Duration: 16 Minutes
Symphony No. 41 in C major KV 551 "Jupiter" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4th movement: Molto allegro
Duration: 35 Minutes

Venue

Musikverein Wien - Great Hall
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Wien
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