We’re bringing our 2024-25 concert season to a grand finish in another marathon undertaking together with the Dortmund Philharmonic. Instead of Chief Conductor Gabriel Feltz who has been prevented to perform due to health reasons, the orchestras will be conducted by Mateusz Molęda and Moritz Gnann.

Once again in Dortmund after the 2022 Beethoven marathon, on June 15 we will present all three symphonies and the first three piano concertos of Sergei Rachmaninoff. In this unique event, we will be joined by three outstanding soloists and known experts in Rachmaninoff’s music: Beatrice Berrut, Olga Scheps and Bernd Glemzer.

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Hardly any other 20th-century composer remained as committed to the musical language of late Romanticism in his work as Sergei Rachmaninoff. With this approach, he created works that still speak directly to us today with their emotional intensity, melodic richness, and tangible drama.

The focal point of his work is the series of his piano concertos and symphonies. Performed in a single day in three concerts, they reveal the enormous range of expressive worlds, ranging from euphoria, pathos, contemplation, sensitivity, to deep dejection, within which Rachmaninoff moved in his music.

Dr. Volker Rülke

SCHEDULE

11:00

Conductor: Mateusz Molęda

Soloist: Beatrice Berrut

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1

15:00

Conductor: Moritz Gnann

Soloist: Olga Scheps

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

19:00

Conductor: Mateusz Molęda

Soloist: Bernd Glemzer

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3