4. Academy Concert: Markus Poschner
His only violin concerto was the first large-format piece that Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky began to recompose following the disaster of his misguided marriage. In contrast, however, to the fourth symphony also completed during this period (on the programme of the 2nd Academy Concert of the 2025/2026 season), in this work there are neither disastrous implosions nor fate motifs, nor is there a plot that one could underpin the music with. Nevertheless, it does perhaps subliminally relate the search for the right place in life, in accordance with the relationship of the individual with their society. The choice of the D major key (as it is in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) means a tying in with history – the individual handling of the symphonic form bears testament to the composer’s self-awareness. Leonidas Kavakos, who debuted at the Bayerisches Staatsorchester a good ten years ago with Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto, performs the solo. Raising his baton for the first time ever at the Bayerische Staatsoper is Markus Poschner, one of the stylistically most diverse and most inquisitive conductors of our time. With Beethoven’s Eroica he delivers a debut that sounds out the piece's political message anew for our times – a debut that awakens great expectations.
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