World première: Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch by Jörg Widmann

When Kent Nagano told the composer Jörg Widmann about his idea of presenting the original programme marking the establishment of the Musikalische Akademie of the Bayerische Staatsorchester (December 1811) in a concert in 2011, but with the inclusion of a new contemporary commission, Widmann responded enthusiastically. The occasion gave him the opportunity to express his affinity with Kent Nagano and the orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper and he composed a Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch, an extremely fast and virtuosic piece in which a variety of superimposed and contradictory dance forms become unified in a boisterous frolic.

Jörg Widmann
Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch
für Orchester (2011)
4’

Commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper

• 9 December 2011 · München (D)
Bayerische Staatsoper
Akademiekonzerte der Bayerischen Staatsoper 2011
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Dirigent Kent Nagano

further performance: 11 December 2011 Munich (D)

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