Programme

Richard Wagner
Suite from the opera Parsifal for choir and orchestra [arr. Claudio Abbado]

Interval

George Benjamin
Sudden Time

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 7 C major, op. 105

Robin Ticciati, Conductor

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Programme Booklet

Download Programme Booklet (in German)

This programme, assembled by the British conductor Robin Ticciati, might be headed “Shaping musical time outside the box”. Ernst Bloch once called Wagner’s Parsifal a “metaphysical adagio”; Act III in particular, heard here in a version by Claudio Abbado, unfolds in unparalleled other-worldly tranquillity. The musical exploration of time as a flexible element is also the subject of George Benjamin’s Sudden Time, a piece dating from 1993. Another long, hymnic adagio opens Sibelius’s final symphony, the Seventh, whose single-movement form has remained surrounded by mystery to the present day.

Gallery

Impressions from the rehearsal and the concerts with Robin Ticciati.

Wolfgang Läubin, Thomas Kiechle, Hannes Läubin, Lukas Gassner and Uwe Schrodi.

Felix Kolb and Christian Pilz.

Jonathan Groß, member of the BRSO Orchestra Academy and Stefan Schilling, solo clarinet-player.

Manager Nikolaus Pont welcomes Robin Ticciati.

Principal timpanist Raymond Curfs