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The Munich Chamber Orchestra presents its concert series eight times a season in Munich's most beautiful concert hall, the Prinzregententheater. The orchestra's own concert series has a different motto every season, but always offers diverse and exciting programs. With great openness and curiosity, a high level of stylistic variability and an excellent level of interpretation, the MKO combines music from earlier centuries with contemporary works in an exciting way.
SEASON 24|25 ›NIGHT WATCH‹
›Night Watch‹ is the motto that will serve as a bracket for the concerts of the 2024/25 season, sometimes very concretely, sometimes associatively - you can find some thoughts on this in the foreword. It is the third season in which we are continuing the fruitful collaboration with our three Associated Conductors Bas Wiegers, Jörg Widmann and Enrico Onofri. The exceptional cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, an artistic partner and good friend of the orchestra for years, will be featured twice in the MKO subscription series 'in focus'. And we are looking forward to other outstanding guests such as the sopranos Sarah Maria Sun and Christina Landshamer, the violist Tabea Zimmermann, the cellist Anastasia Kobekina, the oboist François Leleux and the tenor Julian Prégardien.
Program and cast
17th October 2024
NAKARIAKOV, WIDMANN AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Serenade in C minor KV 388 ›Nachtmusique‹
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
String Symphony No. 8 in D major
JÖRG WIDMANN
›Aria‹ for strings
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Symphony movement in C minor
JÖRG WIDMANN
›ad absurdum‹, concert piece for trumpet and small orchestra
PARTICIPANTS
SERGEI NAKARIAKOV trumpet
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
JÖRG WIDMANN conductor
21th November 2024
NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
›Cortege – A Ceremony for 14 musicians‹
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto for cello and orchestra No. 1 in E flat major, op. 107
HENRI DUTILLEUX
›Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher‹ for cello solo
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417 ›Tragic‹
PARTICIPANTS
NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT conductor and cello
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
12th December 2024
SUN, WIEGERS AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER
Serenade ›The Night Watchman‹
ENNO POPPE
›Augen‹, 25 songs for soprano and chamber orchestra – MUNICH PREMIERE
ANTON WEBERN
Slow movement
ALBAN BERG
›Lulu Suite‹, version for soprano and chamber orchestra by Eberhard Kloke – PREMIERE
PARTICIPANTS
SARAH MARIA SUN soprano
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
BAS WIEGERS conductor
16th January 2025
LELEUX, ONOFRI AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
LUCIANO BERIO
›Notturno‹ for string orchestra
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
Concerto for oboe and small orchestra
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Symphony in D major after the Serenade KV 250 (248b) ›Haffner Serenade‹
PARTICIPANTS
FRANÇOIS LELEUX Oboe
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ENRICO ONOFRI Conductor
13th February 2025
ALTSTAEDT, WIDMANN AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
ROBERT SCHUMANN
›Overture, Scherzo and Finale‹
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Fantasy pieces op. 73 for cello and piano
JÖRG WIDMANN
5 album leaves for cello and orchestra
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 in C major op. 61
PARTICIPANTS
NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello
JÖRG WIDMANN conductor and piano
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
20th March 2025
ESFAHANI, KASAI AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
OTHMAR SCHOECK
›Sommernacht‹ op. 58
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Harpsichord Concerto in E minor Wq 15
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Sinfonia in D minor ›La casa del diavolo‹
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
›Ouverture to Orpheus‹ for harpsichord solo
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
Harpsichord Concerto
PARTICIPANTS
MAHAN ESFAHANI Harpsichord
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
YUKI KASAI Conductor and Concertmaster
22th May 2025
PRÉGARDIEN, DRAXINGER, WIEGERS AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
JOHANNES MARIA STAUD
Commissioned by MKO, Klangspuren Schwaz and Les Musicales de Quiberon – GERMAN PREMIERE
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Serenade op. 31 for tenor, horn and strings
MIRELA IVIČEVIĆ
Commissioned by musica femina münchen e.V. for the MKO – PREMIERE
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG
›Verklärte Nacht‹ op. 4 for string orchestra
PARTICIPANTS
ULIAN PRÉGARDIEN tenor
FRANZ DRAXINGER horn
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
BAS WIEGERS conductor
26th June 2025
LANDSHAMER, ONOFRI AND THE MKO
PROGRAM
PER NØRGÅRD
›Pastorale‹
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
›Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid‹
FRANZ SCHUBERT
›To the Moon‹, ›Rain of Tears‹, ›Lullaby‹ and ›Erlkönig‹, versions for voice and orchestra by Max Reger, Anton Webern and Felix Mottl
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 ›Pastorale‹
PARTICIPANTS
CHRISTINA LANDSHAMER soprano
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ENRICO ONOFRI conductor
Prinzregententheater
The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in theBavarian city of Munich, Germany.
Initiated by Ernst von Possart, the theatre was built in the Prinzregentenstrasse as a festival hall for the operas of Richard Wagner near an area where a similar project of King Ludwig II had failed some decades before. Named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria the building was designed by Max Littmann and opened 21 August 1901 with a production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner. Like the Bayreuth theatre, the auditorium was designed to Wagner’s specifications, however an amphitheater has replaced the loges.
After the destruction of the Nationaltheater during World War II, the Prinzregententheater housed the Bavarian State Operafrom 1944 to 1963 even though it also suffered damage during the war which was not repaired until 1958. Since its renovation in 1988, the Prinzregententheater, with 1122 seats, has served also for the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel and now houses the Bavarian Theatre Academy founded by August Everding. Another theatre in the building, the Akademietheateror Academy Theatre, seats 300.
The Prince Regent theater is reached very well both by car and by public transportation MVV.
With the MVV (Munich Transport)
Subway: U4 Prinzregentenplatz
Bus: Lines 54, 100 Prince Regent Place
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