2. Academy Concert: Kirill Petrenko
Humanity and its destiny – the theme underlying the 2nd 2025/2026 Academy Concert. With the opening chords, it is already clear that, in his first piano concerto, Johannes Brahms is describing personal fears and hopes. And so with this gigantic piece in D minor, with the world premiere in 1859 he had blown away all boundaries that audiences committed to classical balance could imagine. Today pianist Daniil Trifonov is the ideal interpreter like none other for the piece, making his debut with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester with this concerto. For Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky any music that was “purely playing with sound”, was not programme music – music that told of stirrings within the soul, in which experiences and encounters have a lasting effect. For his fourth symphony, he hinted at what had moved him when composing: “This is fate, the fatal power that hinders one in the pursuit of happiness from gaining the goal, which jealously provides that peace and comfort do not prevail, that the sky is not free from clouds – a might that swings, like the sword of Damocles, constantly over the head that poisons the soul. There is nothing to do but to submit and vainly to complain” – but we should never stop fighting it either. Kirill Petrenko conducts the work for the first time in Munich. The return of our erstwhile principal conductor is awaited, as always, with great excitement.
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