Sofia Philharmonic performing in Musikverein, Vienna on 5 December 2019

Celebrating its ninetieth year, Bulgaria’s National Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic, will perform an orchestral concert in the legendary Goldener Saal of Vienna’s Musikverein on Thursday evening, 5 December 2019, at 19.30. 

The program features the Bulgarian Rhapsody ‘Vardar’, op. 16, by Bulgaria’s most important composer, Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978); Igor Stravinsky’s brilliant, Suite from the Firebird Ballet (1919 version); and the Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) by the famous Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak. 

Many of classical music’s best-known composers, soloists and conductors have performed with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra through the years, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Oistrakh, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Sviatoslav Richter, Joshua Bell and many more. The concert will be conducted by the orchestra’s music director and chief conductor, Nayden Todorov, who was appointed in early 2017.