Switch off from everyday life, whether during your lunch break or as an island of peace during a city stroll, and enjoy blissful choral music!A summary from original text in German | Read the original
| WDR Rundfunkchor | Performer |
| Alexander Lüken | Conductor |
| Choräle aus: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 | Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Schalten Sie vom Alltag ab, ob in Ihrer Mittagspause oder als Insel der Ruhe beim Stadtbummel, und genießen Sie beglückende Chormusik!
Midday music with the WDR Radio Choir: Switch off from everyday life, whether during your lunch break or as an island of peace while strolling through the city, and enjoy blissful choral music!
Schalten Sie vom Alltag ab, ob in Ihrer Mittagspause oder als Insel der Ruhe beim Stadtbummel, und genießen Sie beglückende Chormusik!
At least since Rhythm Is It! and his staged reading of the St Matthew Passion, Simon Rattle has been considered a multi-media trailblazer in new forms of musical outreach. Now the designated head of the BRSO will give his début at “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” with an exciting evening of film scores. The programme features Korngold, Rósza, Raksin and John Williams, stylistic trendsetters in a genre that has itself long entered the classical repertoire. As early as 1989 Rattle first conducted the soundtrack to Henry V, and in 2006 he performed the score of Tom Tykwer’s Perfume at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic. Odeonsplatz listeners will be treated to Korngold’s Robin Hood (1938) and Rózsa’s Ben Hur Suite (1959), both of which won Oscars, as well as Rósza’s Violin Concerto (1953), the basis of the film score to Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. The soloist is the young violinist Veronika Eberle. And it goes without saying that Hollywood’s éminence grise John Williams will also be there – with such classics as Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones.
Attracting around 8,000 visitors on site and considerably more via TV and radio, Klassik am Odeonsplatz is one of the highlights of every BRSO season. For this year’s program, Sir Simon Rattle has chosen excerpts from Wagner’s Walküre, of which Brahms probably would have approved. In his opinion, there were “wonderful things” in it, and said about one performance: “In the Second Act, I drink a glass of beer, deliberately lie down for half an hour, and afterwards I feel refreshed again.” Brahms wrote his Second Symphony during a summer holiday on Lake Wörthersee. It’s the perfect piece for a wonderful Munich open-air concert – possibly with a glass of beer to celebrate the new BRSO chief conductor’s first season.
A program defying conventions with conductor Constantinos Carydis, focusing on dance, featuring Carydis on piano, alongside concertmasters Florin Iliescu and Maximilian Junghanns. Experience Robert Schumann's unconventional Violin Concerto in D minor, a glimpse into the composer's depths. Violinist Sayaka Shoji, known for her captivating performances, takes on this challenging piece. Concert duration: approximately 135 minutes including intermission.
A program defying conventions with conductor Constantinos Carydis, focusing on dance, featuring Carydis on piano, alongside concertmasters Florin Iliescu and Maximilian Junghanns. Experience Robert Schumann's unconventional Violin Concerto in D minor, a glimpse into the composer's depths. Violinist Sayaka Shoji, known for her captivating performances, takes on this challenging piece. Concert duration: approximately 135 minutes including intermission.
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