Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - BRSO

Daniele Gatti

Thursday
3
March 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Subscription C
Friday
4
March 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Subscription C

Programme

Richard Strauss
“Don Juan”, op. 20
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV 96 – Vorspiel 3. Akt
Interval
Hector Berlioz
“Symphonie fantastique”

Performers

Daniele Gatti conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Information about the programme

One subject dominates the ecstatic scores that Daniele Gatti has chosen for this concert: love’s boundless rapture. For Don Juan, the suave ladies’ man, Strauss took his inspiration from a poem by Lenau: “O magic realm, illimited, eternal, / Of gloried women, loveliness supernal! / Fain would I, in the storm of stressful bliss, / Expire upon the last one’s lingering kiss!” Things that flew a thousandfold to Don Juan were denied to the autobiographical hero of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, who seeks his beloved in vain. In his mind she becomes a torturous idée fixe until he turns to drugs and takes part in a hallucinatory witches’ sabbath featuring his own execution. Both men – Don Juan and Berlioz’s hero – constantly cross red lines. And Die Meistersinger? Here the hero sings of love with divine inspiration and wins the prize – in this case, anachronistically enough, a woman named Eve.

Further concerts

Mon. 19. May 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Jakub Hrusa © Marian Lenhard
Bamberger Symphoniker in Munich
Works by Korngold, Ives and Shostakovich
Thu. 29. May 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © Astrid Ackermann
Sir Simon Rattle
Works by Boulez, Poulenc and Ravel
Wed. 4. Jun 7:00 pm
Munich, Werksviertel-Mitte, TonHalle
Alisa Weilerstein © Evelyn Freja
Watch This Space | Alisa Weilerstein & friends
Thu. 5. Jun 8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Alan Gilbert © Peter Hundert
Alan Gilbert & Alisa Weilerstein
Works by Sibelius and Larcher
Thu. 19. Jun 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Igor Levit © Felix Broede
Antonio Pappano & Igor Levit
Busoni: Piano Concerto