Rachmaninoff / Schmidt
The concerts on June 12 and 13, 2025, completed Daniel Raiskin's tenure as Chief Conductor, which he has held since the 72nd season in 2020/2021. He will continue to work with the Slovak Philharmonic as a permanent guest conductor and will also appear alongside the Slovak Philharmonic on tours abroad.
Thank you! Slovak Philharmonic
The first piano concerto was written by Sergei Rachmaninoff as a seventeen-year-old teenager. He realized the third movement and instrumentation a year later. The work presents him as an ambitious and energetic composer. These traits were blocked by the premiere of the First Symphony, which plunged the composer into a prolonged depression and melancholy. Bratislava-born Franz Schmidt was the heir to the legacy of Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner. He also liked to use ethnic (gypsy) idioms. The Fourth Symphony, described as “Requiem for my daughter”, is Schmidt's most frequently played work.
Daniel Raiskin znamenitě završil šéfdirigentské působení v čele Slovenské filharmonie. [in Slovak] klasikaplus.cz/daniel-raiskin-znamenite-zavrs…
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