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Conductor: Münchner Philharmoniker Soloist: VALERY GERGIEV DIRECTOR PHILHARMONIC

September 22nd and 23rd 2015

Johannes Brahms Violin in , op. 77...... 40’ No. 4 in E-flat major, Romantic...... 68’

September 24th 2015

Sergei Prokofiev Suite No. 1 from Romeo and Juliet, op. 64bis...... 10’ Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, op. 64ter...... 10’ Don Juan, Op. 20...... 20’ Symphony No. 6 in , op. 74, Pathétique...... 45’

April 1st and 3rd 2016

Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25, Symphonie classique...... 15’ Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 131...... 30’ Anton Bruckner www.telmondis.fr Symphony No. 3 in , Wagner-Sinfonie...... 60’ Telmondis Distribution is a member of TVFI (tvfrance-intl.com) and IMZ (www.imz.at)

April 4th and 5th 2016 Antoine Perset Denis Morlière CEO General Manager Karol Szymanowski T: + 33 1 40 74 76 20 T: + 33 1 40 74 76 21 No. 1, op. 35...... 25’ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Sergei Emilie Huc Céline Lespagnol Symphonic Dances (Fantastic Dances), op. 45...... 35’ International Sales and Acquisitions Manager International sales T: + 33 1 40 74 76 78 T: + 33 1 40 74 76 42 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] > THES > VALERY GERGIEV > JANINE JANSEN B Violinist

The Munich Philharmonic was founded until July 2004 was Her 1997 début at the Concergebouw Janine Jansen studied with Coosje in 1893, and since then, under the the Chief Conductor of the Munich in Amsterdam made Janine Jansen Wijzenbeek, Philippe Hirshhorn and direction of renowned conductors, Philharmonic, which won the prize known to a wide audience virtually Boris Belkin. She was sponsored by it has vastly enriched Munich’s for the “Best Concert Program in the overnight. Meanwhile she ranks the BBC as a New Generation Artist, musical life. Even in the orchestra’s 2002/2003 Season” from the German internationally as one of the greatest and in September of 2003 she received earliest years, conductors like Hans Music Publishers’ Association in the violinists of her generation. After her the Music Prize from the Netherlands Winderstein and of 2003. In January 2004, the début in November of 2002 Culture Ministry, the highest honor guaranteed the high performance Munich Philharmonic made Zubin with the conferred by the State on an artist. level. conducted the Mehta the first “Conductor Laureate” under the direction of Vladimir orchestra in the world premières of in the orchestra’s history. In May of Ashkenazy, there rapidly followed The young violinist has been presented his 4th and 8th , and in 2003, signed invitations from major all with a number of accolades, including November 1911, the world première a contract as new General Music over the world, such as the Koninklijk three Edison Classic Public Awards, of Mahler’s “Das von der Erde” Director. A tour he led to Asia brought Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam, several Echo Klassik Awards as well took place under ’s the orchestra to Japan, Korea and the Philharmonic, the as the 2007 NDR Music Prize for her direction. Ferdinand Löwe led the first China in November of 2007. These , the Chicago outstanding artistic accomplishments. Bruckner concerts and established the totally successful performances were Symphony Orchestra and the NHK orchestra’s Bruckner tradition, which followed by a repeat tour to Japan for Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Janine Jansen plays the Barrere, a was then gloriously continued by five concerts in May of 2010. January violin built by Antonio Stradivari and Oswald of 2009 marked the beginning of She has concertized with such distin- in 1727, which was placed at her von Kabasta. opened a series of concert performances guished conductors as , disposal by the Elise Mathilde Fund the first concert after World War II of “” by Richard Valery Gergiev, , Neeme on the recommendation of the with the overture to “A Midsummer Strauss in collaboration with the Järvi, Paavo Järvi, , Stradivari Society of Chicago. Night’s Dream” by Festival Theatre in Baden- Baden. Daniel Harding, Mark Elder, Edo de Bartholdy. In the autumn of 1945 the Richard Strauss’s “” followed Waart and Sir Roger Norrington.

orchestra acquired the services of an one year later, and in January 2011 Huber © Andrea outstanding conductor in the person the Munich Philharmonic presented of , who additionally the four symphonies by Johannes For more than two decades Valery Today he is a popular guest on all great took up the cudgels for new music. Brahms. The orchestra traveled with Gergiev has been the acclaimed concert stages. With the Mariinsky His successor, from 1949 to 1965 was Conductor Laureate in director of the legendary Mariinsky ensemble he presents highlights of , during whose adminis- September of 2010 to South America, Theater in St. Petersburg. Under his the Russian ballet and reper- tration the groundwork was laid for where it received the plaudits of supervision it has risen to become toire, Wagner’s Ring Cycle as well as the Philharmonic’s successful youth both press and public. To comme- one of the most renowned examples all symphonies of Shostakovich and work. During the era morate the 100th anniversary of the of . Since 2007 Valery Prokofiev. Together with the LSO he (1967-76) the Philharmonic made Munich world première, Christian Gergiev has also served as principal regularly performs at the Barbican, its first tour to what was then the Thielemann led two performances of conductor of the London Symphony and the U.S.S.R. In 1979 Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Orchestra and director of the World Festival. During the 2010/2011 season conducted his first series of concerts October 2010. Lorin Maazel assumed Orchestra for Peace which was he conducted both ensembles in a with the Munich Philharmonic, and the position of Chief Conductor of the founded by Sir in 1995. He symphonic cycle on the occasion of was then appointed General Music Munich Philharmonic in 2012. In his is initiator and artistic director of the Mahler’s anniversary in New York. Director of the orchestra in June of the two-year tenure Maazel expanded the festivals “Stars of the White Nights” His career as conductor has been same year. The legendary Bruckner orchestra's repertoire and worked on and “New Horizons” in St. Petersburg, highlighted by numerous awards, concerts made a major contribu- flexible sounds. Since 2015/16 Valery the Festival, the such as the Grammy, the Polar tion to the orchestra’s international Gergiev is the Music Director of the Gergiev Rotterdam Festivals, etc. Music Prize, the reputation. From September 1999 Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Award and the Prize of the All-Union Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow. Conductors’ Competition in Moscow. He studied with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. Since the 2015/16 season Valery Already as a student he was granted Gergiev has held the position of the award of the Herbert von Karajan principal conductor of the Munich Conducting Competition in Berlin. Philharmonics. With Gergiev, a In 1978, at the age of 24, Gergiev project was implemented that had become assistant conductor to Yuri been unprecedented in Munich: Temirkanov at the Mariinsky Theater, the performance of all 15 sympho- where he made his debut with nies by Dmitri Shostakovich Prokofiev’s score for Tolstoy’s “War and together with the Mariinsky Peace”. In 2003 he became the first orchestra in the season 2011/12. Russian conductor since Tchaikovsky This type of cyclic cooperation to direct the opening concert for was continued with works by Igor the season at Carnegie Hall. Stravinsky in the season 2013/14. © Andrea Huber © Andrea Hoffmann-Decca © Harald