Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - BRSO

Daniel Harding

Thursday
24
February 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Special concert
Friday
25
February 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Special concert

Programme

Gustav Theodore Holst
The planets
Interval
Igor Stravinsky
Pétrouchka. Burlesque in four scenes (version 1947)

Performers

Daniel Harding conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Information about the programme

Seven mood-paintings of uncommon sensuality and expressive power, each standing for itself like a monument. Fascinated by astrology, Gustav Holst took the planets and the qualities ascribed to them as the starting point of what he himself called his “embodiments”. But in the end the seven movements of his orchestral suite, composed between 1914 and 1916, can also be seen as general explorations of human nature. The BRSO has not played The Planets for 30 years. Now Daniel Harding is combining them with a no less vivid piece from the early 20th century: Stravinsky’s ballet score on Petrushka, the “immortal and unhappy hero of every fair in all countries”. Here we encounter a game of character types in a merry amalgam of styles that by no means shrinks from parodic exaggeration. Ever since its première in 1911 Petrushka has numbered among the composer’s most successful scores.

Further concerts

Thu, 28 Sep, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Peter Meisel
Sir Simon Rattle
Mahler 6
Fri, 13 Oct, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Astrid Ackermann
musica viva: Sir Simon Rattle
Works by Žuraj and Berio
Thu, 19 Oct, 8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Isabelle Faust © BR\Astrid Ackermann
Maxim Emelyanychev & Isabelle Faust
Works by Fanny Hensel, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann
Thu, 2 Nov, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Evgeny Kissin © Felix Broede
Krzysztof Urbański & Evgeny Kissin
Works by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
Fri, 10 Nov, 8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Johannes Kalitzke © BR\Astrid Ackermann
musica viva: Johannes Kalitzke
Works by Lisa Streich, Johannes Kalitzke and Luc Ferrari