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SZ-Charity-Concert with Herbert Blomstedt | Schubert

Friday
18
December 2020
8:30 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal

Programme

Edvard Grieg
Vier Psalmen op. 74, 1 “Hvad est du dog skjön”
Edvard Grieg
Vier Psalmen op. 74, 4 “I Himmelen”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate jubilate, KV 165
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in C major, D 944 (“Great”)

Performers

Herbert Blomstedt conductor
Julia Lezhneva soprano
Tilman Lichdi tenor
Christian Immler baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Concert video

Herbert Blomstedt © picture-alliance/dpa

Information about the programme

A milestone in the 19th-century symphonic repertoire: even Robert Schumann waxed ecstatic at the “heavenly lengths” of Schubert’s Great C-major Symphony. Schubert’s path-breaking achievement was to compose, only one year after Beethoven’s Ninth, a similarly ambitious work that nonetheless struck out on paths all its own. Mozart’s virtuoso motet Exsultate, jubilate, sung by the Russian coloratura soprano Julia Lezheva, provides stunning opening to our annual benefit concert, held for the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Advent Calendar. The programme will open with two of the Four Psalms for a cappella chorus by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Herbert Blomstedt, a Swedish conductor highly esteemed by the Munich public, will lend these pieces a delightful Scandinavian tinge.

Further concerts

Sir Antonio Pappano & Igor Levit
Thu. 19 Jun. 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Igor Levit © Felix Broede
Sir Antonio Pappano & Igor Levit
Busoni: Piano Concerto
"105 Friends" – Chamber concert
Wed. 9 Jul. 7:00 pm
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Rosensaal
Museum Brandhorst © Cy Twombly
Foundation. Foto: Haydar Koyupinar, Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Museum Brandhorst,
München
"105 Friends" – Chamber concert