5. Academy Concert: Pablo Heras-Casado
Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casada, Principal Guest Conductor at the Teatro Real in Madrid, takes to the Bayerisches Staatsorchester podium for the first time and presents Hector Berlioz’s orchestral songs, Les Nuits d’été Op. 7. Christian Gerhaher interprets the vocal part of this romantic-wistful song cycle characterised by bidding farewell, which was never performed in its entirety during the composer’s lifetime. It was last enjoyed in this setting and format precisely ten years ago, with the 5th 2016 Academy Concert, conducted by Kirill Petrenko. It is followed by a piece with a twenty-year development history. Johannes Brahms already began with compositional sketches for a symphony in 1854, quizzically writing to Hermann Levi however: “You have no idea what it feels like, for someone like me always to hear such a giant as Beethoven marching along behind.” The composer was only first happy with his own work when he was 43 – Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 celebrated its world premiere in Karlsruhe in 1876 (the same years as Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth).
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