Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - BRSO

Sir Simon Rattle

Friday
26
November 2021
8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie

SZ charity concert

Special concert
Saturday
27
November 2021
7:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Special concert

Programme

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9

Performers

Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Concert video

Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Astrid Ackermann

Information about the programme

On 15 January 2020 the BRSO played a Mahler symphony for the last time before the onset of the pandemic: the “Resurrection” Symphony, in memory of Mariss Jansons. No one could have guessed that Mahler and Bruckner, two pillars of the repertoire, would soon vanish from concert programmes for almost two years. So it is a special sign of hope that the orchestra is finally bringing Mahler symphonies to life again. After the fourth symphony in October under the dircetion of Klaus Mäkelä, the future principal conductor Simon Rattle now conducts the ninth symphony with its nimbus between bold anticipation of modernism and late romantic swan song. For the BRSO, this is at the same time a departure into a new chapter of its Mahler performances, because with Simon Rattle, no less a fervent Mahler aficionado is at the helm of the orchestra as his predecessors Jansons, Maazel and Kubelík once were.

Further concerts

Thu, 14 Nov, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Peter Meisel
Sir Simon Rattle
Works by Ligeti, Wagner, Webern and Bruckner
Sat, 16 Nov, 7:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Astrid Ackermann
Sir Simon Rattle
Charity concert in favour of SZ Gute Werke e. V.