Jan van Gilse (1881-1944) 

Concert Overture in c (1900) 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 

Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, KV 218 (1775) 

• Allegro 

• Andante cantabile 

• Rondeau (Andante grazioso - Allegro ma non troppo) 

Break 

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) 

Paintings from an exhibition (1874) 

(adaptation Maurice Ravel, 1922) 

• Promenade 

• Gnomus 

• Promenade 

• The old castle 

• Promenade 

• Tuileries 

• Bydło 

• Promenade 

• Ballet of budding chicks 

• Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle 

• The market square of Limoges 

• Catacombae (Sepulchrum Romanum) 

• Cum mortuis in lingua mortua 

• The hut on chicken legs (Baba-Yaga) 

• The great gate of Kiev 

End of concert approximately 4:15 p.m. 

Anja Bihlmaier - conductor 

Studies Musikhochschule Freiburg, Mozarteum Salzburg. 

Current position Chief Conductor Residentie Orkest, regular guest conductor Lahti Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights Recently she has conducted the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Symfónica de Barcelona, Basque National Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and MDR-Sinfonieorchester. In recent seasons she also conducted several opera productions in Vienna (Volksoper), Trondheim and Malmö. Was permanently associated with the opera houses of Kassel and Hannover. 

Tobias Feldmann - violin 

Training Hochschule für Musik in Würzberg and Berlin. 

Highlights Concerted with orchestras such as Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony, Tampere Phiilharmonic, Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, WDR Sinfonieorchester with conductors such as Karl-Heinz Steffens, Reinhard Goebel, Michel Tabachnik and Marin Alsop. Played at festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival with Kian Soltani, Denis Kozhukin and Tabea Zimmermann, among others. Made his Dutch debut in 2018 with the Residentie Orkest led by Nicholas Collon. 

Prizes include International Joseph Joachim Competition (2012), Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs (2012), Queen Elisabeth Competition (2015). 

Plays a violin by Nicolo Gagliano (Naples, 1769). 

Other Became professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzberg at the age of 26. 

Residentie Orkest The Hague 

Founded The Hague, 1904 

Current chief conductor Anja Bihlmaier 

Permanent guest conductors Richard Egarr and Jun Märkl 

Chief conductors Henri Viotta, Peter van Anrooy, Frits Schuurman, Willem van Otterloo, Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgenii Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi, Nicholas Collon. 

To be seen at Amare, Paard, The National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw, De Doelen, TivoliVredenburg among others . 

Education Annual outreach to over 40,000 schoolchildren, adults and amateur musicians in educational projects. Part of this is The Residents, through which the orchestra brings hundreds of children from districts in The Hague into contact with classical music. 

Van Gilse, Mozart and Mussorgsky 

Rotterdam-born Jan van Gilse proved to be musically gifted at an early age. Just sixteen years old, he studied at the Cologne conservatory. Due to an escalating conflict - Van Gilse had unwittingly become involved in a relationship that had gotten out of hand between a teacher and a piano student - he was expelled from the conservatory. He moved to Berlin to continue his studies, and his subsequent career also took off. Among other things, he was conductor of the Utrechtsch Stedelijk Orkest, founded the Society of Dutch Composers (Geneco) in 1911 and, two years later, stood at the cradle of the Bureau for Music Copyright (Buma). Due to a conflict with fellow composer and music critic Willem Pijper, Van Gilse left Utrecht in 1921 and settled in Berlin. The rise of fascism made him return, however, and in 1933 he became director of the Utrecht Conservatory. After the invasion of the Germans, Van Gilse lost all his positions and was banned from performing his compositions. He could not cope with the loss of both his sons, who were active in the resistance. On September 8, 1944, the composer died in a hospital in Oegstgeest. 

Van Gilse's Concert Overture is an early work, but already demonstrates the young composer's tremendous skill. The overture stands with both feet in the German romantic tradition and shows traces of Beethoven and Mahler. The turbulent character of the music is striking: dark, brooding and uneasy. 

At the short-lived peak of his career, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a fortune as a keyboard virtuoso in Vienna. That he was also more than capable as a violinist is less well known, but by no means surprising considering that father Mozart was one of the most prominent violin pedagogues of his time. 

Mozart's violinistic skills earned him an appointment to the archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo's court orchestra during his Salzburg years. He also performed there as a soloist in his own Violin Concertos. These - with the exception of the First - all saw the light of day in 1775, more than a year before Mozart's first substantial piano concerto (KV 271). 

Mozart's Violin Concertos, though considered youthful works, masterfully attest to his rapidly growing mastery of the concerto genre. In the Fourth Violin Concerto in D major, Mozart experiments with new ways of putting the soloist in the spotlight. The result is a part in which unadulterated virtuosity (high registers, rapping runs, rich ornamentation) goes hand in hand with inventive, expressive melodic writing. In the lilting slow movement, say an "aria" for violin and orchestra, Mozart gives free rein to the opera composer in him, flirting with eighteenth-century folk music in the dance-like finale. 

Probably the Russian painter Viktor Hartmann would have remained known to only a few if his friend Modest Mussorgsky had seen his Pictures of an Exhibition had not been composed. They were good friends and Hartmann's early death greatly shocked the composer. Naturally, he visited the extensive posthumous exhibition of Hartmann's work in St. Petersburg and wrote his famous piano work in response. He took fourteen works of art by Hartmann that he aptly transformed into sound. As a listener, he gives you the illusion that you are really visiting an exhibition by letting you walk from painting to painting with small interludes he calls "promenade. 

But the question is whether Mussorgsky's Pictures at the Exhibition would have been a great success if not for Maurice Ravel's world-famous orchestration of it. By the way, he was certainly neither the first nor Last, as there are more than a hundred known arrangements of the piece. Ravel wrote it at the request of conductor Sergei Koussevitsky intended for his series of Concerts Koussevitzky that he organized annually in Paris between 1921 and 1929. For Ravel, the commission came at an auspicious time. He was ailing somewhat with his health and as a result he was stalled in his work on his children's opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges. To clear his mind, this arrangement request was more than welcome. Although Koussevitsky had urged him to make it a truly Russian arrangement in the style of Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel went completely his own way. In his orchestration, he let himself be guided much more by the orchestral richness of sound of Debussy and Stravinsky and, of course, his own inspiration, than by Russian romanticism. The result was to be welcomed. It was as if he transformed the black-and-white reproduction that Mussorgsky had made of Hartmann's work for piano into an overwhelming color picture for orchestra. Ravel's version thus eclipsed all other arrangements made of the Picturesque , even the original. It has thus become a unique composition with two faces in which both composers are inseparable. 

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