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Live from Munich – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra A concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary with Arnold Schoenberg’s masterpiece “Songs of Gurres” in the program. The performance of the grandiose work features: Valdemārs – Simon O’Neill (Simon O’Neil, tenors), Tove – Dorothea Rešmane (soprano), Meža douja – Jamie Barton (mezzo soprano), Farmer – Joseph Wagner (bass-baritone), storyteller – Thomas Quasthofthe choir and orchestra of MDR radio and Bavarian Radio, as well as the conductor Simon Rattle. 2023/2024 In the 2018 season, he became the principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Choir, replacing Maris Jansson, who led the distinguished Munich orchestra from 2003 until his departure at the end of 2019.
Liverpool-born Simon Rattle is the sixth musical leader of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1949. His predecessors have been Eugene Jochum, Raphael Kubelik, Sir Colin Davies, Lorin Maazel and Maris Jansson.
In 2010, Simon Rattle first took the helm of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. During these years of cooperation, many programs have been played, recordings of Wagner’s “Gold of the Rhine” and “Valkyrie”, as well as Mahler’s “Songs for the Earth” have been released.
“Gurre’s Songs” for five soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, two tenors, baritone), a narrator, a men’s choir, a mixed choir and a large symphony orchestra had its premiere on February 23, 1913 in Vienna. The songs inspired by medieval legends with lyrics by the Danish poet Jens Pēter Jákobsen tell about the love that the Danish king Valdemar had for the girl Tovi. They went to Zealand together, where the king in love built Gurre Castle. After learning about it, the king’s wife had Tovi secretly killed. In a frenzy of despair, the king curses God for not preventing this calamity. For this, the king receives a punishment, according to which he must hunt forever at night in the vicinity of Gurre Castle together with a troop of ghosts from the afterlife and disappear together with the ghosts until the light of day dawns.
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