MAHLER, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS AND OTHER MASTERS

The great symphonies are emotional landscapes that we traverse again and again, each time anew. This season, Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker, Petr Popelka, turns his attention in depth to the sound worlds of Gustav Mahler: his Fifth Symphony, with its famous Adagietto, and the composer’s final completed symphony, the Ninth. In addition, Philippe Jordan returns to the Wiener Symphoniker with Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, the Song of the Night. In another programme, he presents Richard Strauss’s opulent and spellbinding symphonic poems Also sprach Zarathustra and Tod und Verklärung, with soprano Anja Kampe as soloist.

Petr Popelka will also conduct two of Beethoven’s most iconic symphonies: the Third (Eroica) and the Fifth (Symphony of Fate). Beethoven likewise features in programmes by Riccardo Minasi and Maxim Emelyanychev, as well as Dima Slobodeniouk, who pairs the Coriolan Overture with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1.

Conductor Ádám Fischer is renowned for his emotionally charged interpretations of Haydn - this season he performs La Passione with the Wiener Symphoniker and sets Johannes Brahms’s Haydn Variations alongside it. He also conducts Brahms’s final and uncompromising Symphony No. 4. A symphonic journey through France is presented by Matthew Halls, who conducts works by César Franck, Gabriel Fauré and Hector Berlioz, joined by French tenor Benjamin Bernheim.