Valery Gergiev is continuing his Stravinsky series in the Bavarian capital; on 8 and 9 July the maestro will be conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker at the Gasteig centre. It is well known that in January 2013 the city authorities in Munich, on the initiative of the orchestra’s musicians, unanimously resolved to appoint Valery Gergiev the new head of the Münchner Philharmoniker, concluding a contract with him until 2020. Maestro Gergiev will succeed Lorin Maazel, whose tenure comes to a close in 2015.
The history of collaboration between Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker is rich in major cultural events, one of the most important being the performance of a series of every symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich in the 2011-2012 season. The series of concerts of music by Stravinsky, which began in December 2013 and continued in May 2014, marked the next stage in this artistic partnership and the focus of the current season’s concert programme. The programmes for the two evenings feature key works from various periods of the composer’s life – the dazzling orchestral fantasy Feu d’artifice (1904) in which Stravinsky appears as a worthy heir to his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and a contemporary of Debussy, the neo-classical opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927) and the dodecaphonic ballet Agon (1957). The concert will see the participation of leading Mariinsky Opera soloists Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur, Alexander Timchenko, Yevgeny Nikitin and Mikhail Petrenko together with the chorus of the Münchner Philharmoniker.
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