6.45 pm Concert introduction
German Symphony Orchestra Berlin
Kian Soltani: Violoncello
Anja Bihlmaier: Conductor
Peter Tchaikovsky: "Rococo Variations"
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: "Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu"
Olly Wilson: "Shango Memory"
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Full risk, courage to go to extremes - this not only describes Anja Bihlmaier's conducting style, but also the program with which she continues her three-year concert series at the Beethovenfest. Tchaikovsky's homage to Mozart with a wonderfully gallant solo cello meets Zimmermann's absurd persiflage, Wilson's modernist evocation of a West African god of thunder and Shostakovich's unashamedly sarcastic Ninth, with which he riskily positioned himself against Stalin.