Music at Migros prices

Since 1948, the concert tours devised by Gottlieb Duttweiler have enabled a wide audience to discover, at moderate prices, great orchestras conducted by renowned conductors. Highlights of the new 2019-2020 season include an evening devoted to composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with the Russian National Orchestra and French pianist Lucas Debargue, the SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis and the premiere of Concerto in G by Wolfgang Rihm with cellist Sol Gabetta and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Audiences will also be treated to world-renowned soloists such as Julia Fischer, Francesco Piemontesi and Joshua Bell, as well as rising star Lahav Shani in his dual role as conductor and pianist. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Philippe Jordan will open the season with works by Johannes Brahms in October 2019.

New "Ouverture" support measure
From the coming season onwards, selected Swiss talent will have the opportunity to present themselves to the local audience at the start of each concert. At the end of their performance, the applause will be measured. The singer or instrumentalist selected by the audience will be engaged as soloist next season. The "Ouverture" is thus doubly aptly named: it's both a prelude to the musical evening and a springboard for "the stars of tomorrow".

Casino de Berne reopens
After a two-year exile at Lucerne's KKL, the Migros-Pour-cent-culturel-Classics return to the renovated Casino de Berne. The program this time features seven concerts, including The Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel, performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie choir, or the Mariinsky Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, with pianist Denis Matsuev.

Find out more: www.migros-kulturprozent-classics.ch/fr/home 

Photo The Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester will be at Zurich's Tonhalle Maag on March 15, 2020.