CONCERT CANCELLATION
Due to technical faults in the Residenz that occurred at short notice and could not be rectified, the concert on Saturday, 11 January 2025, with Herbert Blomstedt and the BRSO unfortunately had to be cancelled for safety reasons. We are incredibly sad that circumstances beyond our control have robbed us of a concert experience that we had been looking forward to so much together with our audience, the unique Herbert Blomstedt, wonderful soloists and our esteemed colleagues, including from the BR Choir. The inconvenience this caused our visitors is extremely unpleasant for us, but at the same time we would like to express our gratitude for the understanding shown by many people on site – despite their disappointment. Tickets will of course be refunded. You can return the tickets where you purchased them. If you have any questions, please contact BRticket on 089/5900-10880 (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 9 am – 4 pm).
Award for the CD label BR-KLASSIK
The CD label BR-KLASSIK has been voted ’Label of the Year’ by the jury of representatives of the international music press of the renowned International Classical Music Award (ICMA). In its statement, the jury said: ’Founded in 2009, BR-KLASSIK has long since become one of the most influential labels for classical music in Germany and beyond.’ The award ceremony will take place on 19 March 2025 at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf. The CDs from the BR-KLASSIK label range are available to buy online or at BRticket in Munich’s Funkhaus in Arnulfstraße.
Now available in pre-sale
Tickets for the following concert in March and April are on sale:
- Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s ’Lied von der Erde’ on 6 and 7 March.
- The next chamber concert entitled ’Friendship’ will take place on 15 March with works by Racine, Brahms and Schubert.
- Andrea Marcon conducts BRSO hip, the baroque ensemble of the BRSO, on 16 March in the Prinzregententheater.
- 50 years of the Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester in the Watch this Space series on 18 March
- Sir Simon Rattle conducts works by Boulez, Berio and Lachenmann in the musica viva series on 22 March
- Janine Jansen and James Gaffigan will be guests on 27 and 28 March.
- On 3 and 4 April, we welcome Manfred Honeck and Paul Lewis, who will play Grieg’s piano concerto.
Watch This Space | Stefan Schilli and the BRSO Academy
Wednesday, 22 January 2025: Technikum, Werksviertel-Mitte
BRSO solo oboist Stefan Schilli is a long-time friend of the BRSO Academy and is passionately committed to supporting up-and-coming professional musicians. With his programme for this Watch-This-Space evening, he not only wants to support the scholarship holders, but also specifically challenge them: with Mozart’s great wind serenade, the Gran Partita, and Ligeti’s Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet.
Watch This Space | Kirill Gerstein & HK Gruber
Wednesday, 29 January 2025: Technikum, Werksviertel-Mitte
The Austrian composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber and the American pianist of Russian origin Kirill Gerstein combine their wonderfully free-swinging forces for a programme that harks back to Berlin in the 1920s, when the First World War was over, the lights were dim and the cabaret was in a frenzy. Gruber is undisputedly one of the greatest living interpreters of this style. His artistic role models: Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, who he says made his career as a composer possible in the first place. And Gerstein? Makes Bertolt Brecht’s infectious melodies and sometimes bitter texts shine with his lively, dancing piano playing.
Iván Fischer & Kirill Gerstein
Thursday / Friday, 30 & 31 January 2025: Herkulessaal
We welcome Iván Fischer to the BRSO, who will present a double portrait of the artist friends Brahms and Dvořák in the two upcoming concerts. One major work by each composer will take centre stage. The Russian-American keyboard virtuoso Kirill Gerstein returns to the BRSO for the powerful solo part of Brahms’ symphonically rushing D minor Piano Concerto. And finally, Fischer conducts Dvořák’s truly melodious Eighth Symphony, inspired by Bohemian folklore.
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!
New release
Bernhard Haitink – Portrait Vol. II
The edition offers impressive live recordings from the years 1981 to 2019 with Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of its long-standing guest conductor Bernard Haitink.
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.
