1. Akademiekonzert: Vladimir Jurowski

In the organizer's words:

General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski opens the Academy concert season with an explosive combination. Arnold Schönberg's "Orchestral piece with narrator and male choir" entitled A Survivor fromWarsaw is one of the composer's most profoundly direct and confessional artistic statements. Schönberg succinctly describes the suffering of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto, which takes a moving utopian turn at the end with a Hebrew prayer chant. Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its final chorus follows immediately afterwards: a work of the century that breaks all previous boundaries in terms of its duration and dimensions, including the number of performers. In its combination of instrumental music and song, it is essentially a revolution, and above all it is an emphatic appeal to humanity. The words of Friedrich von Schiller in the final chorus are more burning than ever today, because this finale is the vision of a happier future - in the words of Aribert Reimann "an appeal, a longing for brotherhood, for joy and jubilation, for the utopia of world peace, for a world without wars and destruction".

Arnold Schönberg
A Survivor from Warsaw (A Survivor from Warsaw) op. 46

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125

Cast

• Musical direction Vladimir Jurowski
• Choir Christoph Heil
• Soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
• Mezzo-soprano Emily Sierra
• Tenor Daniel Behle
• Bass / Speaker Christof Fischesser

Price information:

Prices vary depending on seat category: Prices H , € 88 /77 /63 /50 /35 /23 /11 /8