Bundesjugendorchester / Kirill Petrenko
Bernstein / Kraft / Stravinsky
Highly Talented Classical Rising Stars
The Bundesjugendorchester (Germany’s National Youth Orchestra) brings together the nation’s most exceptional young musicians. The symphony orchestra gives musicians aged 14 to 19 the opportunity to work on great pieces under top-class conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Steven Sloane. Under Kirill Petrenko, the Berlin Philharmonic’s future chief conductor, the Bundesjugendorchester presents a Russian-American programme at the Elbphilharmonie.
The young musicians get the concert hall quaking with Igor Stravinsky’s »Le sacre du printemps«, which caused such a scandal in its day. Leonard Bernstein’s »Symphonic Dances« from the musical »West Side Story« is more likely to get the audience snapping their fingers with elation.
In the third piece of the evening, a concerto for timpani and orchestra by the American composer William Kraft (b. 1923), the young musicians prove that they also excel when it comes to contemporary sounds.
Performers
Bundesjugendorchester
Wieland Welzel timpani
conductor Kirill Petrenko
Programme
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from »West Side Story«
William Kraft
Konzert für Pauken und Orchester Nr. 1
Zugabe Solist:
Wieland Welzel
Etüde
– Interval –
Igor Strawinsky
Le sacre du printemps / Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts
Zugabe Orchester:
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Zwischenspiel aus der Oper »Lady Macbeth von Mzensk«
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