Master Cycle 2024/2025

Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra

Pascal Rophé, chief conductor

 

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.

01

Thursday, October 10, 2024

VIKTORIA MULLOVA

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Viktoria Mullova, violin

Lovro Stipčević: Cataplexis, for symphony orchestra and electronics (first performance)

Johannes Brahms: Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 77

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116

02

Thursday, November 14, 2024   

SAXOPHONE CELEBRATION

Ivan Josip Skender, conductor

Zagreb Saxophone Quartet

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80

Mladen Tarbuk: Concerto for saxophone quartet and orchestra (based on motifs from the ballet A Streetcar Named Desire), first performance

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:Symphony No. 5, Reformation, Op. 107

03

Thursday, November 28, 2024

IN THE STRENGTH OF ROMANTICISM

Valentin Egel, conductor

Sara Domjanić, violin

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 35

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103

04

Thursday, December 12, 2024

TRACES

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Lucas Debargue, piano

Vjekoslav Nježić: Traces, for orchestra and electronics

Sergej Prokofjev: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

05

Thursday, February 6, 2025

THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

Thomas Sanderling, conductor

Enrico Dindo, cello

Mieczysław Weinberg: Concerto for cello and orchestra, Op. 43

Dmitrij Šostakovič: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

06

Thursday, February 27, 2025

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Jan Niković, piano

Sergej Rahmanjinov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Vjekoslav Nježić: Divisi Temporali (first performance / commissioned by HRT)

Witold Lutosławski: Concerto for orchestra

07

Thursday, March 27, 2025

NIGHT AND DAWN

Aleksandar Marković, conductor

Evelin Novak, soprano

Modest Petrovič Musorgski: Noć na pustoj gori

Richard Strauss: Wiegenlied, Cäcilie, Morgen!, songs with orchestra

Henri Rabaud: La procession nocturne

Pyotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky: Tatyana's scene with a letter from the opera Evgenij Onjegin

Aleksandar Skrjabin: Poem of Ecstasy

08

Thursday, April 10, 2025

MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Maria Radutu, piano

Margareta Ferek-Petrić: The Orgy of Oxymorons, piano concerto

Danijel Legin: (new work)

George Lewis: Your Network Is Unstable

Luciano Berio: Sinfonia

09

Thursday, April 24, 2025

THE ARDOR OF A HERO

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Nelson Goerner, piano

Béla Bartók: Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra, Sz. 95

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Eroica, Op. 55

10

Thursday, May 22, 2025

THE MAGIC TRUMPET

Ana María Patiño-Osorio, conductor

Vedran Kocelj, trumpet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to the opera The Magic Flute

Igor Kuljerić: Pop-concerto for trumpet and orchestra

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

11

Thursday, June 5, 2025

PICTURES FROM SLAVIC REGIONS

Pascal Rophé, conductor

Edgar Moreau, cello

Krešimir Baranović: Symphonic scherzo

Dmitrij Šostakovič: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107

Modest Petrovič Musorgski / Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an exhibition

HRT reserves the right to change the program.