Gala Concert for the 75th Anniversary
of the BRSO
Sir Simon Rattle – “Gurre-Lieder”
There is something to celebrate: the BRSO turns 75! We are celebrating with two large-scale concerts on April 19 and 20. Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder do not fit into any drawer. They barely fit on the stage! Over 300 performers, including the largest orchestra ever written for. This monumental work has only been performed three times in the history of the BRSO! For Sir Simon Rattle, the Gurre-Lieder are an old childhood love: “Sexy, elegant, sensual.” It is impossible that there could be a more fitting work for this gala.
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Sir Simon Rattle and Timothy Ridout
Thursday / Friday: June 6 & 7, 2024
These concerts are a tribute by Sir Simon to former chief conductor Rafael Kubelík, who recorded Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances with the BRSO in 1982. Violist Timothy Ridout also makes his debut with Martinů’s Rhapsody Concerto. And finally, the brass gets to shine: Nine trumpets alone shine in Janáček’s Sinfonietta, which would certainly have established itself even without its famous solemn fanfare. Get your tickets now!
Concerts in May
Riccardo Muti, Daniel Harding and WATCH THIS SPACE
New in advance: In our WATCH THIS SPACE series, there will be two concerts at the Technikum in the Werksviertel-Mitte in May: “Trio Basso meets Gammon” on May 7, and an evening with the BRSO Academy on May 14. Other highlights include concerts with Daniel Harding and Riccardo Muti.
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Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony was one of Simon Rattle’s first concert programmes as the new chief conductor of the BRSO. For Sir Simon, it is one of his favourite pieces. Listen now to the live recording from September 2023 on CD!
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
With the 2023/2024 season, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) welcomes Sir Simon Rattle as its new chief conductor. 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 founding in 1949, the BRSO developed into an internationally highly regarded orchestra. The orchestra regularly works with renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Harding, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andris Nelsons, 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 the world’s leading music journalists, the BRSO recently came third.
