Sir Simon Rattle
Thursday
21
September 2023
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Introduction: 6:45 pm
Subscription D
Friday
22
September 2023
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Introduction: 6:45 pm
Subscription D
Sunday
24
September 2023
3:00 pm
Ottobeuren, Basilika
Guest concert
Programme
Joseph Haydn
“The Creation”
oratorio for soli, choir and orchestra, Hob. XXI:2
Performers
Sir Simon Rattle
conductor
Lucy Crowe
soprano
Benjamin Bruns
tenor
Christian Gerhaher
baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Information about the programme
Simon Rattle felt no hesitation in commencing his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Chor and Symphonieorchester des BR with Haydn’s Creation. “It contains everything. The whole world. It looks both towards the past and far into the future of everything music can be. It is balance and revolution at the same time, a true work of the Enlightenment.” Magnificent choruses, graceful melodies, the finest polyphony, all firmly anchored in an optimistic view of humanity: “Anyone who doesn’t automatically feel better after hearing it really needs help,“ Simon Rattle says with a wink.” The Creation is healthy in a very honest way.” But health also includes a good dose of humor, and Haydn provides it, even in a setting as sacred as the Creation story. At the same time, a work radiating light also casts some shadows on our own present. What has remained of the spirit of the Enlightenment? And what have we done with the “world, so great, so wonderful”?
Rehearsal insight
Impressions from the rehearsal
Further concerts
