Name: Bruckner And The Mastersingers
Start: 2025-10-26T16:30:00
Location: Meistersinger Hall

Benjamin Reiners

Michiaki Ueno

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

The Viennese have the waltz * On the Beautiful Blue Danube* , the Praguers have the tone poem *The Moldau* , and the New Yorkers have the musical *West Side Story* . But we Nurembergers have Richard Wagner's opera * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg * as the "music of our city" – the greatest tribute to the Franconian metropolis ever composed. The prelude to Act 1, relatively short in duration but monumental in its impact, is a veritable symphonic poem that encompasses all of the opera's central plot motifs. Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3, dedicated to Wagner in its original version, is monumental in every respect. Between these two monuments of late Romanticism is a famous masterpiece of early Classical music: Haydn's virtuoso C major concerto featuring the young Japanese rising star of the cello world, Michiaki Ueno. Benjamin Reiners, GMD in Chemnitz and conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, will be conducting. He has been a guest with us several times since 2012.