Guest in Stuttgart

For Beethoven, one thing was certain: “To play without passion is unforgivable.” That certainly won’t happen to us on our tour of Germany, which kicks off in Bamberg, because musical leaps of joy are guaranteed. With our principal conductor on the podium, we will devote ourselves to a multifaceted and sophisticated programme. Jakub Hrůša once beautifully pointed out that with us, “every little musical detail can become a miracle” – a notion that aptly describes our work together. Among other pieces, we will be performing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, which he premiered in Vienna in 1800 – a refreshing work with effective surprises, which will be brilliantly performed by the acclaimed pianist Lukas Sternath. We will also immerse ourselves in two marvellous orchestral nature spectacles with folkloric melodies: in Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony”, completed in 1808, we atmospherically portray various scenes in the countryside – such as an exuberant festival “of striking humour”, in which we playfully poke fun at the clumsy music-making of a village band. Even a thunderstorm rolls past – just like in Strauss’s magnificent Alpine Symphony, which premiered in 1915: with an impressive array of instruments including cowbells, organ, thunder sheets, wind machines and more than 60 motifs, the powerful soundscape of this symphonic mountain hike takes shape – an utterly joyful musical adventure for us.

Tickets from 25.08.2025 10 a.m.