Karina Canellakis & Alice Sara Ott
Thursday & Friday, 1 / 2 May 2025 | Herkulessaal
Works by Ravel, Sibelius and Saariaho
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
BR-KLASSIK will broadcast the concert on 2 May as a live video stream.
“105 Friends” – Chamber concert
Tuesday, 6 May 2025: Museum Brandhorst, Rosensaal
Fünf Freunde is the title of the exhibition (which runs until August 17) dedicated to the works and artistic circle of Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage. As part of this collaboration, the musicians of the BRSO will be joined by more than 100 friends and will focus on the composer John Cage.
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Simone Young
Thursday & Friday, 15/16 May 2025
For the third time, sound magician Simone Young will be conducting the BRSO, this time with a programme of the conductor's choice. This includes Anton Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces and Alban Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces. The programme is rounded off with Alexander von Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony: multi-layered, refined and one of his most important compositions, in which soloists Maria Bengtsson and Michael Volle add their own highlights.
Jakub Hrůša & Bomsori Kim
Monday, May 19, 2025
The Bamberg Symphony and its chief conductor Jakub Hrůša are our guests in Munich: The programme includes Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question and Shostakovich's rarely performed Eleventh Symphony. You can also hear the exceptional Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, winner of the 2013 ARD Music Competition, performing Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto.
Concerts in May and June
Tickets are now available for the following concerts:
- Simon Rattle conducts Boulez, Poulenc and Ravel at the Isarphilharmonie on 29 & 30 May
- WATCH THIS SPACE with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and musicians from the BRSO on 4 June
- Alan Gilbert & Alisa Weilerstein will perform works by Sibelius and Larcher on 5 & 6 June.
- Igor Levit plays Busoni's piano concerto under the direction of Antonio Pappano in three concerts on 19/20/21 June.
Simon Rattle: Mahler 7 from Tokyo
Video on demand
On its first tour of Asia under Sir Simon Rattle, the BRSO performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7 at the NHK Hall in Tokyo in November 2024. The five-movement symphony with its two ‘Nachtmusiken’ and jubilant finale fully exploits the orchestra's tonal and virtuoso possibilities. The concerts in the traditional halls of Japan and East Asia are always very special moments in the annals of the BRSO.
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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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BRSO media library
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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!
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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.
