
Season 2025 – 2026
Discover the new season
In his third season as chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle will once again conduct at least one concert in every subscription series. As one of the most versatile conductors of our time, his repertoire ranges from Purcell and Bach to Haydn, Beethoven, Bruckner and Mahler to Janáček and Stravinsky. You can look forward to many outstanding guest conductors and soloists as well as new, wonderful projects from the BRSO Academy, our “Watch This Space” series, “BRSO baroque”, chamber concerts, “BRSO und du” and musica viva.

Discover Music with Simon Rattle
#1 Anton Webern: Six Pieces, op. 6
A conductor's mind must be like a six-lane highway. What if you could take a look inside? In a new video series, Discover Music with Simon Rattle, the Chief Conductor of the BRSO offers insights into selected works and his rehearsal process. Filmed in the BRSO Container in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte, each episode shows rehearsal footage and Rattle’s personal commentary.

Klassik am Odeonsplatz
Samstag, 12. Juli 2025
At this Klassik am Odeonsplatz concert, Daniil Trifonov will perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto in glorious harmony with the BRSO under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, who is an expert in this repertoire. Strauss’ Rosenkavalier Suite, which renders the elegant conversations between the Marschallin, Baron Ochs, and Octavian audible even without words and singing, will then send the listeners dancing into the evening in infectious three-four time. BR-KLASSIK will broadcast the concert in a video livestream.

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!

Get your ticket!
The BRSO is offering concert tickets at 10€ for everyone under 30! Tickets are available in advance: online, on site or by phone at BRticket.

Meet the orchestra
The orchestra owes its exceptionally broad repertoire and impressive sound spectrum to the great flexibility and stylistic confidence of each individual musician. Get to know the musicians of the BRSO!
BRSO media library

Enjoy anytime and free of charge
In the BRSO media library you will find numerous concert videos with major symphonic works in recordings with many well-known conductors such as Rattle, Blomstedt, Gardiner, Haitink, Dudamel, Harding, Nézet-Séguin, Jansons or Antonini. Plus current livestreams as well as audios, documentaries about the BRSO and exciting backstage videos. Free of charge and available at any time!
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.