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Twelve concerts, renowned music festivals, great concert halls from Moscow to Besançon. In September, the Bavarian State Orchestra and General Music Director Kent Nagano will set out on a grand tour of Europe!
They will be carrying a repertoire in their luggage that reflects the full range of the ensemble’s history, its musical identity and the interaction of its long tradition with the modern era. In Mozart’s immortal Jupiter Symphony and Beethoven’s First, we find the roots of its the symphonic tradition. Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony launched its triumphal march throughout the world with the first Munich performance by what was then the Court Opera Orchestra and vividly demonstrates the romantic sound of the orchestra. The close connection to the creativity of Richard Strauss as represented by the composer’s Metamorphoses forms just as much a part of the program as does Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Luciano Berio’s Concerto for Two Pianos.
Kent Nagano and his Bavarian State Orchestra look forward to the challenge of putting the very special emotionality and the unique sound of the orchestra’s long history on display to an international audience in twelve concerts in the focal points of European concert life.
On www.blog.staatsoper.de, the musicians of the State Opera are sending along on-the-spot reports of their tour.
Schedule of the tour
www.blog.staatsoper.de
