The concerts are dedicated to the memory of Maestro Seiji Ozawa

The Maggio Winter Season continues with another double symphonic appointment in the Zubin Mehta Hall: on the podium maestro Hankyeol Yoon, a young and talented conductor that the Maggio has decided to place alongside the main conductor Daniele Gatti and his two concerts (next one schedule for March 16th), to present him to the Florentine public together with the subsequent Min Chung and Vitali Alekseenok.

Maestro Hankyeol Yoon, already a multiple award winner in numerous competitions, recently won the prestigious first prize "Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award" in 2023. Thanks to this important victory, the Maggio Fiorentino offered him his Italian debut, anticipating the one at the Salzburg Festival next August.

On the programme: the Academic Festival Overture (Akademische Festouvertüre) op. 80 by Johannes Brahms was composed when in 1879 the musician was awarded an honorary degree in philosophy by the University of Wroclaw; it follows another Brahmsian composition, Nänie op. 82, which was performed for the first time ever at the Tonhalle in Zurich on 6 December 1881 under the conduction of the composer himself; penultimate piece of the concert, also by Johannes Brahms, Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) op. 54 inspired from a collection of lyrics by Friedrich Hölderlin, one of the most authoritative voices of poetry in the German language. The concert closes with one of Antonín Dvořák's best-known symphonies, Symphony no. 8 in G major op. 88, performed for the first time, under the conduction of the author, at the Prague Artistic Association in February 1890.

Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture (Akademische Festouvertüre) op. 80
Nänie op. 82
Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) op. 54

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163

The concert will be broadcast prerecorded on Rai Radio 3