MDR-Musiksommer 2026: Eröffnungskonzert

Antonín Dvořák:
"In Nature" Concert Overture op. 91 (B 168)

Antonín Dvořák:
"Waldesruhe" op. 68 No. 5 for violoncello and orchestra B 182

Antonín Dvořák:
Rondo in G minor for cello and orchestra op. 94

Richard Wagner:
"Waldweben" from "Siegfried" WWV 86C

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 "Pastorale"

MDR Symphony Orchestra

Dennis Russell Davies | Conductor

Carlo Lay | Violoncello

The forest has always been a symbolic space and source of inspiration for many creative artists. In European art music, it unfolds a special power that moves between observation of nature, mythical exaggeration and inner reflection. In his Pastorale, Ludwig van Beethoven explores the sound possibilities of a landscape as a whole, in which drone sounds and imitative bird calls evoke associations with the forest. Antonín Dvořák, on the other hand, plays with changes in light, emphasizing the transitions between light and dark, life and death, freedom and threat, thus creating an acoustic myth: the forest as a place that not only wants to be heard, but also experienced.