Celebrating your 75th birthday is worth all honor and effort. With this in mind, BR artistic director Katja Wildermuth paid tribute to the orchestra in her welcoming speech, which with its six chief conductors has spanned a glorious arc of success around the world from 1949 to the present day. Therefore, the jubilee, the BR Symphony Orchestra, and its leader Sir Simon Rattle did not hesitate to produce, alongside Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”, the most impressive work of late romanticism in terms of effort and ambition, Arnold Schönberg’s “Gurre-Lieder” (text by Jens Peter Jakobsen in the German version by Franz Robert Arnold) with a great team of soloists and the fabulous choirs from BR and MDR (dated by Peter Dijkstra) in the Isarphilharmonie with a powerful sound. Simon Rattle threw himself with all his verve into the orchestral floods that Schönberg made foam according to all the rules of the art of composition and instrumentation.
Holy Monster: Simon Rattle and the BR Symphony Orchestra with the “Gurre-Lieder” – Munich
