Programme booklets
Season 2009/2010


  1. Nr. 85 for 17.06. / 18.06. / 19.06.2010

    Looking Back and Looking Ahead

    Music by Ravel, Bartók and Brahms

  2. Nr. 82 for 09.06. / 10.06.2010

    Tradition and Freedom

    "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing"

  3. Nr. 80 for 02.06. / 03.06. / 04.06.2010

    Anomalies

    Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Anton Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony

  4. Nr. 78 for 27.05. / 28.05. / 29.05.2010

    In Search of Genuine Folk Music

    Avoiding the superfluous

  5. Nr. 77 for 20.05. / 21.05. / 22.05.2010

    Different rules and different routes

    Notes on the last three symphonies of Jean Sibelius

  6. Nr. 75 for 14.05. / 15.05. / 16.05.2010

    Poem – symphonic!

    Vocal Works by Schubert, Schoenberg and Brahms

  7. Nr. 74 for 06.05. / 07.05. / 08.05.2010

    Harmony and Hullabaloo

    New musical territory: from Orpheus to peasant music

  8. Nr. 69 for 22.04. / 23.04. / 24.04.2010

    Life could be so beautiful!

    Existential confessions in late works by Janáček, Schoenberg and Brahms

  9. Nr. 67 for 16.04. / 17.04. / 18.04.2010

    Clavier, Café and Compositional Craft

    Music for new audiences by Bach, Haydn and Mozart

  10. Nr. 63 for 09.04. / 10.04. / 11.04.2010

    An Affectionate Meditation on the Leipzig Good Friday Vespers

    Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

  11. Nr. 59 for 10.03. / 11.03. / 13.03.2010

    Church or Theatre?

    Thoughts on Verdi’s Messa da Requiem

  12. Nr. 55 for 05.03. / 06.03.2010

    Between the Concert Hall, the Opera Stage and the Movie Screen

    Music by György Ligeti and Béla Bartók

  13. Nr. 47 for 13.02. / 14.02.2010

    High emotional concentration

    Works by Kurtág, Sibelius and Beethoven

  14. Nr. 45 for 09.02. / 10.02.2010

    Born from the spirit of improvisation

    Beethoven’s Second and Third Piano Concertos

  15. Nr. 44 for 03.02. / 04.02.2010

    Madness and Method

    Music by Ligeti, Beethoven and Sibelius

  16. Nr. 43 for 28.01. / 29.01. / 30.01.2010

    Trumpets in the Coffee House

    Musical Wisdom and Reality – from Bach and Haydn

  17. Nr. 37 for 14.01. / 16.01. / 17.01.2010

    Brooding over form and detail

    Brahms and his Third Symphony and First Piano Concerto

  18. Nr. 35 for 08.01. / 09.01. / 10.01.2010

    Not a question of age

    The avant-garde and nostalgia

  19. Nr. 33 for 18.12. / 19.12. / 20.12.2009

    A concerto and a non-traditional Requiem

    Works by Brahms and Currier

  20. Nr. 30 for 10.12. / 11.12. / 12.12.2009

    The Workings of Fate

    Music and poetry in Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg

  21. Nr. 27 for 04.12. / 05.12. / 06.12.2009

    Masterpieces by Schubert, Bartók and Beethoven

  22. Nr. 22 for 05.11. / 06.11. / 07.11.2009

    Traditionally progressive

    Works by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms

  23. Nr. 19 for 30.10. / 31.10.2009

    Three Ways to Write a Symphony

    Works by Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg und Krása

  24. Nr. 17 for 22.10. / 23.10. / 24.10.2009

    Magyar Mixtures

    Hungarian music’s world success is based on its folk roots

  25. Nr. 13 for 15.10. / 16.10. / 17.10.2009

    The Fates of Men and Musicians

    Works by Bartók, Britten and Richard Strauss

  26. Nr. 10 for 08.10. / 09.10. / 10.10.2009

    Between Strictness and Sensuousness

    Works by Stravinsky, Schönberg und Shostakovich

  27. Nr. 7 for 02.10. / 03.10. / 04.10.2009

    Talent as national property

    Three Polish composers in search of themselves

  28. Nr. 4 for 17.09. / 18.09. / 19.09.2009

    Between intoxicating sounds and classical form

    Notes on works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Dmitri Shostakovich

  29. Nr. 3 for 12.09. / 13.09.2009

    Expressive music of a special kind

    Works by Berg, Dessau and Shostakovich

  30. Nr. 2 for 08.09. / 09.09.2009

    “The picture of thy life behold”

    Haydn’s oratorio "The Seasons"

  31. Nr. 1 for 28.08.2009

    The Magic of Musical Imagery

    Works by Benjamin Britten, Kaija Saariaho and Hector Berlioz