Münchener Kammerorchester und Anastasia Kobekina

In the organizer's words:

The Munich Chamber Orchestra is highly regarded worldwide for its diverse and exciting programs. With great openness and curiosity, combined with a high degree of stylistic variability, the ensemble combines music from earlier centuries with contemporary works in an associative and exciting way.

"Sommernacht" from 1945, a work by the late Romantic composer Othmar Schoeck, opens the concert with a lovely string intermezzo. The beauty that the Latvian composer P ēteris Vasks conjures up in his works, with his expressive, simple music, makes him one of the most important contemporary Baltic composers. His 2nd Cello Concerto will be performed by the young cellist Anastasia Kobekina, who has already performed with numerous renowned orchestras and is a prizewinner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The passionate Symphony in D minor from 1771 shows Luigi Boccherini as a fervent admirer of the Sturm und Drang movement, which shook the whole of Europe at the time.