Sir Simon Rattle
musica viva
Saturday, 22 March 2025 | Herkulessaal
Works by Lachenmann, Berio and Boulez
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Watch This Space | Celebrating 50 Years of BLJO
Tuesday, 18 March: Technikum, Werksviertel-Mitte
The Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. Together with their protégés, the BRSO invites you to an entertaining evening in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte. The programme will feature a work by the young composer Johannes Wiedenhofer as well as Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony op. 110a.
James Gaffigan & Janine Jansen
Thu. & Fri., 27 & 28 March 2025
An unusually exciting programme with conductor James Gaffigan and violinist Janine Jansen: in the first half, you can listen to a work by American composer William Grant Still and the “American Suite” by Antonín Dvořák. After the interval, Janine Jansen will present the “Serenade after Plato’s Symposium” for violin, string orchestra and percussion by Leonard Bernstein. Gershwin’s portrait of the French rush hour in “An American in Paris” concludes the concert.
Concerts in April
The following concerts are on the programme in April 2025:
- Manfred Honeck & Paul Lewis present the Piano Concerto No. 4 and the Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) by Ludwig van Beethoven on April 3 & 4
- Tugan Sokhiev & Vadim Gluzman will perform works by Boulanger, Tchaikovsky and Chausson on April 10 & 11
- At the chamber concert on April 12, you can experience what ’fantasy and mysticism’ sound like
- The musica viva evening on April 25 under the direction of Ariane Matiakh will focus on the composer Pascal Dusapin
Now available in pre-sale
You can now buy tickets for the following concerts in May 2025:
- Karina Canellakis & Alice Sara Ott will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major on May 1 & 2
- On May 15 & 16 we welcome Simone Young to the Isarphilharmonie
- On May 19, the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jakub Hrůša will be performing in Munich
- Matthias Hermann will conduct the BRSO at the musica viva concert on May 23
- You can experience baroque music with the ensemble L’Accademia Giocosa on May 24
All other concerts can be found in our concert calendar.
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Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2025 to Sir Simon Rattle
The international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize will be awarded to Sir Simon Rattle in 2025. “Rattle is one of the most important and influential conductors of our time. He stands for outstanding interpretations, for openness towards different musical genres and for an unrivalled commitment to educational work,” said the Board of Trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The award for a life in the service of music is endowed with 250,000 euros. The award ceremony will take place on 17 May 2025 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz.
BRSO memo game
With the new BRSO online memo game you can get to know the BRSO and its instruments even better. Show how well you know your way around the world of orchestral instruments at different levels of difficulty. There are exciting things to discover and, of course, to hear – together with Sir Simon!
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Sir Simon Rattle has been chief conductor of the BRSO since the 2023/2024 season. He is the sixth in a line of distinguished conductors after Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel and Mariss Jansons. Soon after its foundation in 1949, the BRSO developed into an internationally renowned orchestra. The orchestra regularly works with renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Harding, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jakub Hrůša and Iván Fischer. The orchestra tours throughout Europe, Asia and America and can look back on numerous CD releases and awards,
including the GRAMMY in the category “Best Orchestral Performance” and the “German Record Critics’ Award”. Simon Rattle has already added important milestones to the discography, including works by Mahler and Wagner. Further recordings, intensive promotion of young musicians and performances in the world’s music centres will accompany the collaboration. In a ranking of the ten best orchestras in the world published by the online magazine Bachtrack and compiled by leading music journalists, the BRSO recently came third.
