Augustin Hadelich

On the cover of the current season brochure, acclaimed soloist Augustin Hadelich gazes out from behind an instrument of almost sacred status: the last violin from Giuseppe Guarneri's workshop, dating from 1744, which Henryk Szeryng, perhaps the most sensitive violin virtuoso since the advent of sound recordings, acquired in 1970 and cherished like the apple of his eye until his death in 1988. in 1970 and cherished like the apple of his eye until his death in 1988. Augustin Hadelich says he fell in love with the warm, dark and powerful sound of this violin, and now the audience at the Wiener Konzerthaus has the opportunity to discover a distant lover in it for an entire season; whether at the start of the season with Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, with sonatas for violin and piano by Brahms, Janáček and Prokofiev, or with virtuoso solo repertoire from Telemann to Paganini.