With this concert, GMD Jörg-Peter Weigle bids farewell as chief conductor and artistic director of the Brandenburg State Orchestra in Frankfurt. In the seven years at the helm of Brandenburg's only A-class orchestra, large, artistically outstanding choral-symphonic performances were his special trademark. To conclude this season and his time as General Music Director in Frankfurt (Oder), he will once again bring great romantic choral symphonies to the stage with Mendelssohn's symphony cantata "Lobgesang". This work was commissioned on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary with which the book city of Leipzig wanted to celebrate Gutenberg's invention of the printing press with movable type.

6th Classic on Sunday

Konzerthalle Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Merseburg Court Music, Collegium Vocale Leipzig

Gewandhaus

Beethoven's "Ninth" is a must at the end of the year in Frankfurt (Oder). How can you end the old year more conciliatory and look forward to the new one more peacefully than with the harmony and brotherhood celebrated in this symphony? But it is not just the message of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" that makes this symphony so unique. Its great wealth of musical ideas, the ingenious combination of many different motifs, musical forms that develop completely freely and finally the phenomenal 4th movement with the "Ode" make it one of the greatest works in music history.

Britta Schwarz

Events

Past events

Jun 29, 2025

6th Classic on Sunday · Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Apr 20, 2025

Merseburg Court Music, Collegium Vocale Leipzig · Gewandhausorchester

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Christmas Oratorio by Bach

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Singer in Symphony No. 2 by Mendelssohn

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

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