Communal Concert of the Academies of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the BRSO

Programme

Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll

George Benjamin
"Three Consorts" (according to themes from Henry Purcell)

Interval

Richard Strauss
Le Bourgeois-Gentilhomme, Suite op. 60 [III]

Daniel Harding, Conductor

Akademie des Symphonieorchesters des BR

Akademie des Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam

Programme Booklet

Download Programme Booklet (in German)

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

For years Mariss Jansons was the principal conductor of both the BRSO and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. If gifted young musicians from two academies now assemble in Munich for a concert, they do so in memory of this great conductor, who left an indelible imprint on both orchestras. Jansons had a firm commitment to talented young orchestral musicians, and the idea of the academy continues in his spirit, helping graduates to find their way into professional orchestras. Now, for the first time since their initial exchange of 2019, the two academies reunite in a concert that straddles the boundaries of Germany and the Netherlands. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, George Benjamin’s modernist take on Purcell and Richard Strauss’s Suite from Der Bürger als Edelmann give these young musicians ample opportunity to display their prowess under the baton of Daniel Harding.