Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - BRSO

Manfred Honeck & Igor Levit

Thursday
16
December 2021
8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Special concert
Friday
17
December 2021
8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Special concert
Saturday
18
December 2021
7:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Special concert

Programme

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, op. 15
Interval
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88

Performers

Manfred Honeck conductor
Igor Levit piano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Information about the programme

“An orchestra of wailing and jubilant voices”: thus Robert Schumann described the piano playing of Johannes Brahms. Now Igor Levit, last season’s artist-in-residence, returns to the BRSO with Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, the very work with which the composer forged his path from chamber music to the symphony. Here the “voices” of the solo instrument and the orchestra blend into an intensive dialogue. Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony radiates the relaxed and cheerful holiday mood of the little village of Vysoká. “The melodies just drop into my lap”, the composer enthused, and indeed the symphony seems to “emerge directly from Bohemia’s natural surroundings and the Czech people”, to quote Dvořák’s enraptured biographer Otakar šourek. With this symphony Manfred Honeck conducts one of Dvořák’s most popular works, revealing him to be a Czech national composer to the very core.

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