On May 30 at the Konzerthalle in Bamberg, Susanna Mälkki will lead the Bamberger Symphoniker, with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, in one of Mozart’s most popular works: the Piano Concerto No. 23. This will be followed by Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, written in 1884, when he finally made his long-awaited breakthrough as a recognised composer of large orchestral works. The will perform again on May 31 at the Würzburg Cathedral, this time starting the program with Liszt’s symphonic poem From the Cradle to the Grave, inspired by a drawing by a Hungarian painter.
Mälkki will then join forces with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’s tone poem The Oceanides, followed by Salonen’s own cello concerto with Nicolas Altstaedt as the soloist. Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 concludes the concert. The performances take place on June 4 and 5.