Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Tibor Bogányi

In 2017/2018, he is spending his seventh season as chief conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic.

Tibor Bogányi is of Hungarian descent and is regarded as the most interesting and talented member of the generation of Finnish conductors. At the age of 28 he was appointed Chief Conductor of… More

Soloist

Benjamin Schmid

violin

About the Programme

It’s without a doubt that Vienna meant an important intersection in thelives of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). The imperial city was a key station for the Bonn-born Beethoven and a century later, for the the composer from the Czech land of Austro-Hungary; and the two masters did not only enjoy the potential of local cultural life, but -although to varying degrees- their art shaped and designed also what we call Viennese music. Beethoven remained in Vienna until the end of his life, but the Jewish Korngold seeing the growing influence of fascism was forced to leave the country and settled in the United States. That also brought a significant change into the art of the composer, who had been until then an eminent film composer: the major part of his traditional genre works -including the Violin Concerto, premiered in 1947- was written after World War II. This three-movement concerto is in fact a special combination of autonomous and applied art, since the vast majority of the themes were borrowed from Korngold’s earlier film scores. This time, the Violin Concerto is going to be framed by Beethoven's two well-known work, composed almost at the same time (1806 and 1807), the Leonore Overture No.3 and the Symphony No.5.