Osmo Vänskä & Renaud Capuçon
Thursday & Friday, April 30 / May 1, 2026: Isarphilharmonie
Works by Moussa, Barber and Sibelius
Chamber Concert: A tribute to Jan Koetsier
Saturday, April 18, 2026: Max-Joseph-Saal
To mark the 20th anniversary of Jan Koetsier’s passing, the brass section of the BRSO dedicates this chamber concert to a composer who, like few others, knew how to write for this ensemble. Straddling the line between tradition and modernity, his music is imbued with clear form, heart, and spirit. Hans Leo Haßler was the first to bring the brilliance and warmth of brass to life in church spaces in the 16th and 17th centuries. His contemporary Jörg Widmann builds on this legacy with compositions that breathe, laugh, shimmer, and provoke. An evening that does not simply look back, but makes connections audible, honors Koetsier’s spirit, and shows how alive music history can sound.
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Concerts in June and July 2026
Tickets for the following BRSO concerts are now available:
- Sir Simon Rattle: “The Dream of Gerontius” by Edward Elgar on June 18–19 in the Herkulessaal
- We welcome Zubin Mehta & Rudolf Buchbinder on June 25–26.
- The next chamber concert, titled “Italia and Germania”, will take place on June 27.
- Dame Imogen Cooper will be our guest on July 2 and will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto in B-flat major, K. 595, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.
- In addition, tickets are now available for “Singing with Sir Simon – Many Choirs, One Orchestra” on July 5 at the Circus Krone-Bau in Munich.
Watch This Space | Schnittke x BRSO
Wednesday, April 29, 2026: Technikum
Alfred Schnittke is regarded as a pioneer of polystylism—the concept of interweaving different musical styles within a single work. In his Third String Quartet, he layers, distorts, and deconstructs traditional and modern elements, using them to develop his own multifaceted musical language. He weaves in passages by the three composers gathered around him for this Watch-This-Space evening: Orlando di Lasso, Beethoven, and Shostakovich. The performers are Daniel Nodel, Fabian Jüngling, Emiko Juasa, and Katharina Jäckle.
BRSO Concerts May & June
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The following BRSO concerts are now available for advance booking: We welcome mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená together with Sir Simon Rattle, percussionist Christoph Sietzen and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, as well as pianist Herbert Schuch in the WATCH THIS SPACE series. In addition, a BRSO string quartet will perform a chamber concert entitled In memoriam, featuring works that make memories audible. We look forward to seeing you at the concerts!
Concert video from the Elbphilharmonie
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection Symphony”)
The Bavarian Radio Chorus and the BRSO, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, performed Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony” at the Elbphilharmonie.
Release of the 2026/2027 season
On Monday, May 4, 2026, the new BRSO concert season for 2026/2027 will be announced. We are looking forward to the fourth season with our chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, and many outstanding artists from all generations.
ICMA Award 2026
The BRSO and BR-Choir are delighted to have won the prestigious International Classical Music Award (ICMA) for their recording of Joseph Haydn's ‘The Creation’ under their principal conductor Sir Simon Rattle. The recording won the 2026 award in the ‘Choral Music’ category.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
With the 2023/24 season, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra welcomed its new principal conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. As the sixth chief conductor in the line of important orchestra leaders after Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel and Mariss Jansons he is a conductor personality of great openness to new artistic paths.
The BRSO developed into an internationally renowned orchestra soon after its founding in 1949. In addition to the interpretation of the classical-romantic repertoire, the orchestra's central concern from the beginning was to cultivate contemporary music within the framework of musica viva, founded by Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1945.
Since its beginnings, many renowned guest conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini and Wolfgang Sawallisch have left their mark on the symphony orchestra. Today, Herbert Blomstedt, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Harding, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jakub Hrůša and Iván Fischer are important partners.
The orchestra tours regularly throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America. The BRSO has received many awards for its extensive recording activities, such as the Grammy, the Diapason d’or and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Simon Rattle has already added important milestones to the discography, including works by Mahler and Wagner.
Another focus of the BRSO is the promotion of young musicians. The BRSO Academy, one of the most renowned training facilities of its kind, and the ARD International Music Competition, which was founded in 1952, are dedicated to this. Music education “BRSO und du” also plays an important role in the orchestra's programme with various formats and offers for schools and families with children.
In an orchestra ranking by Bachtrack, the world's leading website for classical music events for which internationally renowned music critics were asked about “The world's greatest orchestras,” the BRSO came in third place in 2023.