6. Academy Concert: Sebastian Weigle

Thanks to the many opera performances he has already conducted at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Sebastian Weigle is a familiar name to Munich audiences, and he is now conducting an academy concert for the first time. The programme features two orchestral pieces, which in their virtuosity and wealth of colour bring the instrumental proficiency of an orchestra to the fore in simply every respect: Modest P. Mussorgsky’s sole original orchestral composition, A Night on the Bare Mountain, a wild witches’ Sabbath, and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony, inwhich the Staatsoper’s new organ can truly reveal its magnificence. In the wonderful tradition of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester of presenting its members with solo positions in the Academy Concerts, principal trumpet Johannes Moritz will interpret Alexander Arutjunjan’s trumpet concerto. A truly spectacular piece, in which the Armenian composer combines elements of his country’s folk music with late-Romantic indulgent harmonies and French flair – a truly enchanting discovery.

Modest P. Mussorgsky
A Night on the Bare Mountain

Alexander Arutjunjan
Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Kadenz: Timofei Dokschizer)

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 Organ Symphony