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Dive with us into the depths of the sea with "Vox balaenae - Songs of the Whale" by George Crumb for flute, cello and piano! Travel to the savannahs and deserts with the string sextet "Leopards" by Fazil Say and learn something about the living conditions and habits of endangered species. The video department of the State Theater shows wonderful recordings to accompany the music. Dag Encke, director of the Nuremberg Zoo, brings the animal world to life for young and old. The concert is rounded off with the classic "The Carnival of Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. A musical safari and an animal-inspired and informed concert morning await you!

The concert series "Dreiklang" combines exciting locations with new concert impressions. This time, conductor Sándor Károlyi and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra are referring to the history of the Orpheum in the St. Johannis district, which is now used as an event hall. In the past, the Orpheum was not only a popular cinema, but also a drinking hall and mattress camp.

In 1812, Beethoven wrote a love letter to an unknown lady that has occupied generations of researchers but also inspired musicians. In his violin concerto, which he wrote in 2019 for the violinist Midori, Detlev Glanert sees the words in Beethoven's famous letter as notes and the declaration of love as music. After the overture by Beethoven's student Ferdinand Ries, the master himself takes center stage in the 7th Philharmonic Concert: with the cheerful, thoughtful piano piece "Andante favori", which Roland Böer arranged for orchestra, and with his always surprising and not very triumphant 8th Symphony.

Stone soup is not particularly tasty, but if you add different vegetables and herbs, it can become a delicious meal. Using the fairy tale "The Stone Soup", different instruments in an orchestra are introduced: when they all play together, they create a delicious sound.

The great works of music history are both equally: creations of a brilliant musical mind and children of their time, their society and their fashion. How notes relate to each other, how instruments play together, how the great composers dealt with what they found and how they developed it further - all of this is the focus of the excursion concerts.

Well-known melodies, famous opera arias, catchy compositions - the "Heart & Soul" concert in the Gustav Adolf Memorial Church is aimed at everyone who enjoys listening to music and remembering it. The informal, barrier-free setting offers people with and without dementia an ideal opportunity to enjoy an hour of culture together.

Mendelssohn is still considered an outstanding musical prodigy today. One of his youthful masterpieces is his first string quintet, which he composed at the age of 15. A late work, however, is Bartók's trio "Contrasts". The piece is inspired by melodies from Bartók's homeland of Hungary - sounds that were familiar to him since childhood. Reger's clarinet quintet was his last composition. Homages to his great role models Mozart and Brahms can be heard as well as Reger's mature and masterful harmony.

Melancholy in its most beautiful romantic form dominates the program of the 8th Philharmonic Concert, which Frankfurt's General Music Director Thomas Guggeis will lead the State Philharmonic Orchestra through. The premonition of the imminent death of his son-in-law Richard Wagner and the funeral gondolas of Venice inspired Franz Liszt's piano piece, whose undulating 6/8 time in turn inspired the minimalist Adams to his arrangement. Wagner's five songs are based on his hopeless love for Mathilde Wesendonck. Even in Hans Werner Henze's version, they foreshadow "Tristan". Sergei Rachmaninoff was a master of combining beauty and melancholy, combining deep emotionality with captivating fullness of sound in his 2nd Symphony.

In the youth concert, the furies dance, the ghosts sing, Rübezahl rumbles and the Flying Dutchman's ship howls: pretty scary! But why? Why does some music teach us to be afraid? The Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra is addressing this question in the youth concert.

"All people who care about music, especially chamber music, bow down to Franz Schubert's String Quintet in C major, happily admiringly - or enthusiastically. The work occupies a unique place in Schubert's work, indeed in music literature. It is enigmatic, and it is perfect... No one can fully unravel the musical mystery of this work or put it into words," says music critic Joachim Kaiser. "Shaker Loops" from 1978 is a masterpiece of minimal music and refers to the Shaker religious community, who get themselves into a frenzy through ritual shaking dances.