On 14 September the Münchner Philharmoniker under Valery Gergiev opens the new season at the Gasteig Philharmonic (Munich).
The programmes for the concerts on 14, 16 and 17 September include Richard Strauss' symphonic poems Ein Heldenleben and Don Juan as well as the last act of Hector Berlioz' opera Les Troyens. The solo roles will be performed by artistes of the Mariinsky Opera Yulia Matochkina, Yekaterina Krapivina, Sergei Semishkur, Yevgeny Akhmedov and Yuri Vorobiev.
On 20 and 21 September there will be a performance of Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony (Die Heroische) and Rodion Shchedrin's Second Piano Concerto (soloist: Denis Matsuev). On 24 and 25 September Anton Bruckner's Sixth Symphony and Dmitry Shostakovich's Violin Concerto will be performed (soloist: Leonidas Kavakos).
Valery Gergiev has directed the Münchner Philharmoniker since the start of the 2015/16 season. As part of this collaboration, Munich has seen the establishment of Valery Gergiev's new festival 360 Degrees, where the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Mariinsky Orchestra in turn have performed every piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. In April 2016 the Combined Orchestra of the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Mariinsky Theatre took part in a series of celebratory events to mark the one hundred and twenty-fith anniversary of the birth of Sergei Prokofiev, appearing together for the first time in Russia. In the first joint season the German orchestra under maeastro Gergiev gave more than forty concerts in Germany, Russia, Austria, Spain, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Great Britain. Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker's future plans include the second 360 Degrees festival which will take place in Munich from 11 to 13 November 2016.
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