13th Monday Concert: Kirill Petrenko

The series of Monday Concerts - and thus also the 2019/20 season - ends with an evening under the musical direction of Kirill Petrenko, with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and its Orchestra Academy and Jonas Kaufmann as soloist. The General Music Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper conducts a programme of four works, which are either arranged for a chamber ensemble or, even as an adaptation of older pieces and styles, written specifically for a chamber orchestra.
 
Arnold Schönberg's Chamber Symphony is - in the composer's own words - a turning point in his creative work and at the same time a highlight of his first stylistic period; it will be performed by the Orchestra Academy of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. In his neo-classical Pulcinella Ballet, Igor Stravinsky puts on the mask of the commedia dell'arte, which he sometimes laps mischievously with sharpened sounds; Schönberg has condensed the orchestration of Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen for a performance with chamber ensemble; and Richard Strauss revives the world of French classical music in his colorful music to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's arrangement of Molière's and Jean-Baptiste Lully's satirical ballet comedy Le bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois as a Nobleman), quoting not only the music of Lully but also composers of other eras, including Richard Wagner and, last but not least, himself.

Arnold Schönberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1 op. 9 for 15 Solo Instruments
     Langsam – Sehr rasch – Sehr langsam – Schwungvoll – Hauptzeitmaß

Orchesterakademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters

Igor Strawinsky
Suite from the Ballet Pulcinella for Orchestra
     1. Sinfonia (Ouvertüre)
     2. Serenata
     3. Scherzino. Allegro. Andantino
     4. Tarantella
     5. Toccata
     6. Gavotta con due Variazioni
     7. Vivo
     8. Minuetto. Finale

Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Nr. 1 - 4
(arranged by Arnold Schönberg)
     1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
     2. Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld
     3. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer
     4. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz

Richard Strauss
Orchestersuite from Bürger als Edelmann byMolière Op.60
     1. Ouvertüre zum I. Aufzug (Jourdain - der Bürger)
     2. Menuett
     3. Der Fechtmeister
     4. Auftritt und Tanz der Schneider
     5. Das Menuett des Lully
     6. Courante
     7. Auftritt des Cleonte, nach Lully (Entry of Cléonte, after Lully)
     8. Vorspiel zum II. Aufzug (Intermezzo, Dorantes und Dorimene - Graf und Marquise)
     9. Das Diner, Tafelmusik und Tanz des Küchenjungen

Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor
Kirill Petrenko, Conductor

Bayerisches Staatsorchester