Even before the new season at the Nationaltheater opens, the Bavarian State Orchestra under the direction of General Music Director Kent Nagano will be making guest appearances on tour in September of 2010 in the concert halls of 13 European and Russian cities. They’ll be bringing along a program including works by such composers as Bruckner, Beethoven and Strauss in their luggage, performing it in Grafenegg, Essen, Bonn, Berlin, Baden Baden, Besançon, Verona, Merano, Rimini, Ghent, Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Returning to Munich the Bavarian State Orchestra will begin offering a selection of Academy, Chamber Music and Special Concerts, the richness of which it will be on display during the OktoberMusikFest, which, as it did last year, will take place in cooperation with the Max-Planck Gesellschaft. A series of events has been conceived with concerts under the title “Sun, Moon and Stars – Appearances in the Sky – The World in Sound”. At the concluding concert on the 10th of November Kent Nagano will conduct. Schönberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” and Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony.
Beyond this, Kent Nagano will assume the musical direction for four further concerts: besides the “Opera for All” Festival concert, he will mount the podium of the Bavarian State Orchestra at three Academy Concerts. After beginning to focus on performances of symphonies by Anton Bruckner in their original versions over the past seasons, 2010/11 will offer two great works by Johannes Brahms: the Symphony No. 4 in E minor as well as “Ein deutsches Requiem” with Soile Isokoski (soprano) and Christian Gerhaher(baritone) along with the Windsbach Boys’ Choir.
Apart from this, the coming season will also feature Academy Concerts with Marc Albrecht (October 31) and Fabio Luisi (January 10), among others, as guest conductors on the Bavarian State Orchestra’s concert platform. The soloists in the concerts they will be conducting are Baiba Skride with Sofia Gubaidulina’s Violin Concerto No 1, the “Offertorium”, as well as Arabella Steinbacher with Paul Hindemith’s Violin Concerto.
April 19, 2010
