On the occasion of the feast day, we invite you on a musical journey through Europe: Under the direction of Michael Zukernik, the Warsaw Festival Orchestra presents an atmospheric concert evening in the large hall of the Tonhalle Zurich with highlights by Smetana and Dvořák. The violin concerto by Tchaikovsky is interpreted by the internationally experienced violinist Andrei Baranov.

The principal conductor of the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Berlin is present at numerous internationally distinguished and diverse conducting consoles and he has already directed several important formations.

The concert will be opened with the famous work "Die Moldau" by Bedřich Smetana from the cycle My Fatherland (Má vlast). The main motif flows succinctly through this work, which was processed by Smetana from the famous Renaissance song La Mantovana and was, for example, also received in the popular Israeli national anthem.

This is followed by the unique violin concerto in D major by Tchaikovsky, which the composer wrote on Lake Geneva and symbolizes his regained vitality after a creative crisis. The work was premiered on 4 December 1881 by the Vienna Philharmonic and Adolph Brodsky as a violin soloist. The reception of the work was initially very divided. Sometimes it was compared with the brutal and sad merriment of a Russian Kirchweihfests, sometimes celebrated stormy. Tchaikovsky's composition is still one of the best-known, most performed and most well-rehearsed violin concertos worldwide.
Antonín Dvořák calls his ninth and last symphony "New World", which premiered at Carnegie Hall New York in 1893. Although the symphony was written in the United States, "Out of the New World" can not be called American music. It represents the last peak of Dvořák's symphonic work and serves us as the culmination of a concert tour through musical Eastern Europe.