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Munich, Leipzig & Berlin MUSIC IN GERMANY MUNICH, LEIPZIG & BERLIN MAY 6-21, 2019 TOUR LEADER: DR ROSAMUND BARTLETT The Bavarian State Opera’s production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser MUSIC IN GERMANY Overview MUNICH, LEIPZIG & BERLIN Music lies at the very heart of German identity and cultural expression and Tour dates: May 6-21, 2019 over the centuries German musicians have made an unrivalled contribution to the western tradition. German composers and performers Tour leader: Dr Rosamund Bartlett enjoy a worldwide renown and talented musicians from abroad flock to Germany for the outstanding quality and vibrancy of the music scene. Tour Price: $10,375 per person, twin share Orchestras and opera companies play a pivotal role and are supported by audiences and the state alike in a way that others can only dream about. Single Supplement: $2,450 for sole use of Main cities have not just one, but sometimes two or three major orchestras double room and opera houses. Performances are well attended and feature not just ‘classics’ from the standard repertoire but a constant roster of Booking deposit: $500 per person contemporary pieces and rediscovered works from the past. Recommended airline: Qatar Airlines Academy Travel is once again delighted to offer a musical journey to Germany, with extended stays in three of its main music cities – Munich, Maximum places: 20 Leipzig and Berlin. 10 performances of orchestral music and opera are included, exploring the core of the German repertoire and featuring a line- up of top-flight artists. There are excursions to Bayreuth and Dresden, Itinerary: Munich (5 nights), Leipzig (3 nights), both important for their musical traditions, visits to galleries and music- Berlin (7 nights) themed sightseeing. Date published: December 12, 2019 Your tour leader Dr Rosamund Bartlett is a cultural historian with a particular interest in European Modernism, and in opera. She completed her doctorate at Oxford and pursued an academic career for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer and translator. During this time, she served on the Council of the Royal Musical Association and organised several international music conferences which included collaborations with the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Borodin String Quartet, and Oxford Contemporary Music. She maintains an active scholarly profile and is currently an Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her opera research has been supported by the British Academy and a Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author and editor of several books, including Wagner and Russia, and Shostakovich in Context. As well as contributing to Enquiries and publications such as the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, bookings she has written articles for the Royal Opera House, La Monnaie and Opera Australia. She has taken part in broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and For further information and to been asked to give pre-concert talks including for the Proms, the London secure a place on this tour Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2017 she was please contact Rebecca commissioned to translate the original libretto of Shostakovich’s Lady Fussell at Academy Travel on Macbeth for the Salzburg Festival. She speaks several languages and has 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 been travelling to Germany since she was a teenager, when she was an (outside Sydney) or email exchange student in Munich. She has extensive experience leading tours [email protected]. throughout Europe. au Performance Program We are delighted to present a varied program of masterpieces of the Austro-German repertoire from Bach to Mahler. Performances by some of Germany’s leading orchestras feature outstanding soloists and conductors. Operatic productions feature Australian artists, including conductor Simone Young and director Barry Kosky. MUNICH The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields with violinists Julia Fischer and Augustin Hadelich, playing Bach, Schnittke and Dvořák Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser at the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Simone Young and starring Klaus Florian Vogt, Ludovic Tezier and Lise Davidsen Mahler’s Symphony No 1, ‘Titan’, and Alban Berg’s violin concerto with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding LEIPZIG Robert Schumann’s violin concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No 4, with the Central German Symphony Orchestra and violinist Carolin Widmann Andris Nelsons conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Buckner’s Symphony No 5 BERLIN Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin and playing piano in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 27 and star mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata Barry Kosky’s production of Puccini’s La bohème for the Komische Oper Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s violin concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No 6, ‘Pastoral’ The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and with pianist Yefim Bronfman, playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2 and Swedish composer William Stenhammar’s masterpiece of 1915, Symphony No 2 Osmo Vänskä conducting the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Barber, Copeland and Sibelius’s Symphony No 4 The Austro-German repertoire is explored thoroughly on this tour. Clockwise from top left: Schumann, Beethoven, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, Mahler and Bach Detailed itinerary Included meals are shown with the symbols B, L and D. Tour start & finish time The tour begins at 6.00pm in Munich on Monday 6 May, at the Platzl Hotel. The tour ends after breakfast in Berlin on Tuesday 21 May. Monday 6 May Arrive Munich The tour commences at the hotel in Munich at 6pm. Meet your tour leader and fellow travellers in the lobby of the hotel for introductions and drinks followed by dinner in the hotel. Overnight Munich (D) Tuesday 7 May Nymphenburg Palace Above: the historic centre of Munich This morning we explore Munich with a guided walking tour through the city centre. In the afternoon we travel a short distance to Nymphenburg, summer residence of the Bavarian monarchs and visit the commanding baroque palace and Below: star German violinist Julia Fischer appears with the Academy expansive landscaped gardens. This evening we gather for a of St Martin-in-the-Fields welcome dinner at a well-known Munich restaurant. Overnight Munich (B, D) Wednesday 8 May Fine art in Munich – Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields We start today with a visit to the Alte Pinakothek which holds one of the most significant art collections in the world. Among the European masterpieces on view are paintings by Dürer, Titian, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens and Murillo. After free time for lunch we continue to the Pinakothek der Moderne, home to four outstanding museums under one cupola-topped roof: art, graphic art, architecture, and design. Our opening concert is with the renowned Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, founded by Sir Neville Marriner in 1959. The program includes Bach’s concerto for two violins, a masterpiece of the German baroque repertoire. Overnight Munich (B) Performance details Venue: Gasteig, Munich Program: JS Bach, Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo BWV1043; Alfred Schnittke Concerto grosson No 1 for two violins, harpsichord, piano and string orchestra; Antonin Dvorak Serenade for String Orchestra in E major, op.22 Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, Julia Fischer and Augustin Hadelich (violins) Thursday 9 May Lenbachhaus – Tannhauser In the middle of the 19th century, Munich was one of the most important art centres in Europe, and in the 1880s, Lenbach was one of the most famous artists in Germany. Today Lenbachhaus is home to the stunning collection of art from the early 20th- century Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group: Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlensky, Macke, Marc, and Münter. Tonight, we head to the National Theatre in Munich, arguably Germany’s leading opera house, to hear a key work of the German romantic repertoire. Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser premiered in Dresden in 1845, with a plot based on medieval German legends, but presented in a radical, sexually exploratory way through Wagner’s music and lyrics. Australian conductor Simone Young leads the ensemble. Overnight Munich (B) Performance details Venue: National Theatre Munich – Bavarian State Opera Program: Wagner’s Tannhäuser Performers: Bavarian State Opera, Simone Young (conductor), Klaus Florian Vogt (Tannhäuser), Ludovic Tezier (Wolfram), Lise Davidsen (Elisabeth) Friday 10 May At Leisure – Bavarian Radio Symphony Today is at leisure in Munich. Your tour leader will recommend possible sightseeing options. Tonight’s concert with Munich’s leading orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, features Gustav Mahler’s ground-breaking Symphony No 1, a harbinger of so many of this symphonist’s later works. Overnight Munich (B) Performance details Venue: Gasteig, Munich Program: Alban Berg Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Mahler Symphony No 1 in D major 'Titan' Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor), Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Top: Franz Marc at the Lenbachhaus, Munich Above: young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen appears in leading Saturday 11 May opera houses around the world, specialising in Wagner and Strauss roles To Leipzig – Leipzig MDR Below: Wagner’s Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. The composer’s former symphony Orchestra home is today an excellent museum This morning we depart for Bayreuth, an elegant provincial city where Wagner chose to build his Festspielhaus, a theatre specifically designed to house his great music dramas. We visit Wahnfried, the villa built for him by King Ludwig, also known as the Richard Wagner Museum. After a break for lunch, we continue to Leipzig. In the first of two concerts at the Gewandhaus concert hall, the Leipzig-based MDR Symphony Orchestra plays two cornerstones of 19th-century German orchestral music, Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No 4.
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