Programme booklets
Season 2010/2011


  1. Nr. 85 for 22.06. / 23.06.2011

    Musique royale from both sides of the Channel

    Orchestral pieces by Handel and Rameau

  2. Nr. 83 for 16.06. / 17.06. / 18.06.2011

    Looking Back, Looking Ahead

    Peter Eötvös in league with Stravinsky and Mussorgsky

  3. Nr. 81 for 10.06. / 11.06. / 12.06.2011

    “Where the dark feelings hold sway”

    Late Stravinsky and early Mahler

  4. Nr. 79 for 01.06. / 02.06.2011

    “The most complicated ever written”

    The Berliner Philharmoniker play works by Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler

  5. Nr. 78 for 26.05. / 27.05. / 28.05.2011

    The Thunder of the Inexorable

    Music by Anton Bruckner and Karl Amadeus Hartmann

  6. Nr. 76 for 20.05. / 21.05. / 22.05.2011

    Caught between East and West?

    Both Shostakovich and Takemitsu tried to surmount their cultural boundaries. Only one of them succeeded...

  7. Nr. 73 for 13.05. / 14.05. / 15.05.2011

    Unfinished

    Compositions by Mozart, Mahler and Berg

  8. Nr. 70 for 05.05. / 06.05. / 07.05.2011

    A Strauss for All Occasions

  9. Nr. PS 5 for 13.04.2011

    “Listening with rapt attention and admiration”

    Mendelssohn, Brahms and Musical Perfection

  10. Nr. 63 for 06.04. / 07.04.2011

    In the Face of Death

    Music by Henry Purcell and Gustav Mahler

  11. Nr. 61 for 01.04. / 02.04. / 03.04.2011

    The Fine Art of Orchestration

    Works by Berg, Mozart and Stravinsky

  12. Nr. 58 for 26.03. / 28.03.2011

    “…a meteor, the power and brilliancy of which commands the attention of everyone…”

    Richard Strauss’s “Salome”

  13. Nr. 55 for 16.03. / 17.03. / 18.03.2011

    Lutosławski and Brahms in search of new sonorities

  14. Nr. 51 for 10.03. / 11.03. / 12.03.2011

    “Contrapuntal Masterpiece”

    Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat

  15. Nr. 48 for 04.03. / 05.03. / 06.03.2011

    In Search of Peace of Mind

    Visions of faith from Paul Hindemith and Anton Bruckner

  16. Nr. 46 for 16.02. / 17.02. / 18.02.2011

    Chaste Music on a Gold Background

    Igor Stravinsky’s Apollo ballet and Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

  17. Nr. 41 for 03.02. / 04.02. / 05.02.2011

    Earthly and Heavenly Pleasures

    Vocal and symphonic works by Wolf, Brahms and Mahler

  18. Nr. 35 for 12.01. / 13.01. / 14.01. / 15.01.2011

    The Versatile Symphony Orchestra

    Compositions by Hillborg, Shostakovich and Nielsen

  19. Nr. 31 for 15.12. / 16.12. / 17.12. / 18.12.2010

    Finding an Identity

    Works by the Russian composers Taneyev, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky

  20. Nr. 28 for 09.12. / 10.12. / 11.12.2010

    New Ideas, New Forms

    Symphonic works by Shostakovich, Strauss and Tchaikovsky

  21. Nr. 21 for 04.11. / 05.11.2010

    Symphonic Masterworks by Composer-Performers

  22. Nr. 17 for 28.10. / 29.10. / 30.10.2010

    Living, beyond life itself

    Professions of faith in works by Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg

  23. Nr. 15 for 21.10. / 22.10. / 23.10.2010

    Muses, Passions and Dissonances

    Compositions by Berlioz, Prokofiev and Messiaen

  24. Nr. 13 for 14.10. / 15.10. / 16.10.2010

    Experiences of subjective and collective suffering in the 20th century

    Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony

  25. Nr. 10 for 07.10. / 08.10. / 09.10.2010

    Personal Confessions

    Works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Jean Sibelius

  26. Nr. 8 for 30.09. / 01.10. / 02.10.2010

    Prague or Vienna? Or directly to Paris?

    Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů are the two greatest Czech symphonists

  27. Nr. 6 for 22.09. / 23.09.2010

    “They all betray the master who created them.”

    Orchestral works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and by Ludwig van Beethoven

  28. Nr. 3 for 17.09. / 18.09.2010

    Transformation and Metamorphosis

    Boulez’s … explosante-fixe … and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol

  29. Nr. 2 for 10.09. / 11.09. / 12.09.2010

    Successful Encounters with Tradition

    Works by Luciano Berio and Igor Stravinsky

  30. Nr. 1 for 27.08.2010

    “Waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us”

    Beethoven’s Fourth and Mahler’s First Symphonies