Bavarian Radio Chorus / Peter Dijkstra

Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus celebrates his 85th birthday in 2024! With his major and very successful tour in 2023, the »eternally young« and exceptional artist already said goodbye to touring life in the spring of 2023. But the passion for music, stage air and closeness to the audience remains. A thoroughbred musician like Peter Kraus lives and loves and needs the stage. And so the superstar of the wild 50s and 60s is »gifting« himself and all his fans a series of concerts in selected concert halls for this special anniversary. Peter Kraus’s »Rockin’ 85!« promises to be a rousing »limited edition« in the truest sense of the tour title!

Radio La Balise

Gustav Peter Wöhler Band

Singer and actor Gustav Peter Wöhler and his band have been on stage together for twenty-five years. The quartet’s programme features an ever-changing collection of personal favourite songs. The programme builds bridges between stars and one-hit wonders, classics and personal discoveries. The spectrum ranges from Joe Jackson, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell to Rio Reiser and June Carter. The titles are framed by Gustav Peter Wöhler’s very personal stories – the audience thanks him with standing ovations!

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / George Benjamin

Debussy’s shimmering, pictorial score finds resonance with the work of Olivier Messiaen, a great colourist of orchestral material, at his best in Chronochromie, rich with the sounds of nature.

Peter Rundel

Peter Rundel

Derrick Gee’s Radio Hour

As Creator in Residence, Derrick Gee is taking his online followers to the Elbphilharmonie during the current season. This special live event also offers a one-off opportunity to meet the Australian in person. Describing himself as a »professional music fan«, the successful content creator, presenter and DJ has built up a huge community with his humorous and well-informed videos, especially on TikTok and Instagram.

Klaus Mäkelä & Frank Peter Zimmermann

A programme with three works requiring solo singers is certainly something special – so that Frank Peter Zimmermann has brought along two pieces never heard before in the concerts of the BRSO: Bartók’s roughly ten-minute Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and orchestra (1928) and Martinů’s Suite concertante (1944), a four-movement violin concerto in everything but name. Both works thrive on the tension between original eastern European folk melodies, modern sonic garb and the unique individual styles of their respective creators. A folk inflection of a quite different kind depicts the “heavenly joys” that soprano Anna Lucia Richter invokes in the final movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. But the childlike naivety of this idyll openly displays its fractures, and perhaps no Mahler symphony is as enigmatic as his purportedly “simple” Fourth. Standing at the rostrum is the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, now in his second appearance with the BRSO following his début of February 2020.

Klaus Mäkelä & Frank Peter Zimmermann

A programme with three works requiring solo singers is certainly something special – so that Frank Peter Zimmermann has brought along two pieces never heard before in the concerts of the BRSO: Bartók’s roughly ten-minute Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and orchestra (1928) and Martinů’s Suite concertante (1944), a four-movement violin concerto in everything but name. Both works thrive on the tension between original eastern European folk melodies, modern sonic garb and the unique individual styles of their respective creators. A folk inflection of a quite different kind depicts the “heavenly joys” that soprano Anna Lucia Richter invokes in the final movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. But the childlike naivety of this idyll openly displays its fractures, and perhaps no Mahler symphony is as enigmatic as his purportedly “simple” Fourth. Standing at the rostrum is the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä, now in his second appearance with the BRSO following his début of February 2020.