Gramophone – September 2019

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SEASON PREVIEW 201920

EUROPE

Accademia Nazionale di

Santa Cecilia

Berlioz’s Grande Messe de Morts

opens the season at Rome’s

Auditorium Parco della Musica under

Pappano, followed a week later by

the same composer’s Symphonie

fantastique. Principal Guest

Conductor Mikko Franck conducts

the Verdi Requiem and Stravinsky’s

The Rite of Spring and there are visits

from Lahav Shani, Manfred Honeck,

Gustavo Dudamel and Tan Dun,

who conducts the Italian premiere

of his own Buddha Passion.

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Andermatt Music

Held at the newly opened

Andermatt Concert Hall, the

inaugural Andermatt Music season

hosts 10 ‘New Generation Concert

Series’ from September to June 23

• nine recitals, and an orchestral
  concert to open the Andermatt
  Music Summer Festival 2020.
  There’s also an Autumn Festival,
  (October 2426) programmed by
  Lucerne Festival featuring the COE
  under Daniel Harding, and a four-day
  Beethoven-themed Winter Festival
  in January 2020, with Barenboim
  performing the opening concert.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony

Orchestra

Robin Ticciati conducts Sibelius’s

Symphony No 7, Herbert Blomstedt

brings Mozart’s Mass in C minor,

Thomas Adès conducts his own

Piano Concerto, John Eliot Gardiner

interprets Holst’s The Planets, while

the boss himself, Mariss Jansons,

opens up a world of Beethoven with

the overtures, string concertos and

orchestral incidental music.

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Bavarian State Opera

The German-language premiere

of Hans Abrahamsen’s new opera

The Snow Queen is presented

in Munich in December, starring

Barbara Hannigan, following its irst

performance in Copenhagen in

October. The season also includes

new productions of Duke Bluebeard’s

Castle and Die tote Stadt.

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Bergen Philharmonic

Norway’s oldest orchestra will

augment certain concerts with

a TEDTalk style series named

‘Next Steps’, in which researchers

participate in concerts, examining

aspects surrounding space, the

oceans, climate change and human

existence. The performances include

Mahler’s Symphony No 4 and John

Luther Adams’s Become Ocean.

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Berlin Philharmonic

Kirill Petrenko’s irst season as

Music Director will see him take on

Zimmermann’s Caprichos Brasilieros,

Mahler’s Symphony No 6 and Suk’s

Symphony No 2. Santtu-Matias

Rouvali makes his debut with the

orchestra in Sibelius’s Symphony

No 1 while Stefan Dohr is soloist

in the world premiere of Hans

Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto.

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Czech Philharmonic

The 124th season opens with

Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony

under Chief Conductor Semyon

Bychkov, just a few days before

they appear at the BBC Proms. To

follow are Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass

under Petr Altrichter in Prague and

Bruckner’s Symphony No 4 under

Pablo Heras-Casado.

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Danish National Symphony

Orchestra

Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi will

conduct Nielsen’s Symphonies

Nos 3 and 5, Langgaard’s Symphony

No 4 and the irst act of Wagner’s

Die Walküre starring Lise Davidsen

and Stephen Milling. In a season

of big gestures, Alain Altingolu will

mastermind a concert performance

of Debussy’s The Martydom of

St Sebastian and Gianandrea Noseda

will do the same for Dallapiccola’s

The Prisoner, which will be recorded

for release on Chandos.

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Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie

Bremen

There is an Anglo-Irish lavour

to the Kammerphilharmonie’s

season opening in which Duncan

Ward will conduct Gerald Barry’s

Organ Concerto with Thomas

Trotter on the organ bench at

Die Glocke. Elsewhere, Igor Levitt

plays Brahms’s monumental Piano

Concerto No 1, paired by Paavo Järvi

with Haydn’s Drumroll Symphony

in a programme that will tour

Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Deutsche Oper Berlin

Rued Langgaard’s apocalyptic opera

Antikrist features in the Deutsche

Oper Berlin’s new season. Other

PHOTOGRAPHY: premieres include La forza del

CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU

Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in the opening concert of the orchestra’s 124th season – Shostakovich’s Eight Symphony – before heading to the Proms