Klassik am Odeonsplatz
Programme
Richard Wagner
“Die Walküre” – Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner
“Die Walküre” – Act 3, Final
Interval
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73
Performers
Sir Simon Rattle
conductor
Anja Kampe
soprano
Michael Volle
baritone
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Information about the programme
Attracting around 8,000 visitors on site and considerably more via TV and radio, Klassik am Odeonsplatz is one of the highlights of every BRSO season. For this year’s program, Sir Simon Rattle has chosen excerpts from Wagner’s Walküre, of which Brahms probably would have approved. In his opinion, there were “wonderful things” in it, and said about one performance: “In the Second Act, I drink a glass of beer, deliberately lie down for half an hour, and afterwards I feel refreshed again.” Brahms wrote his Second Symphony during a summer holiday on Lake Wörthersee. It’s the perfect piece for a wonderful Munich open-air concert – possibly with a glass of beer to celebrate the new BRSO chief conductor’s first season.
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