MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER
BARBARA HANNIGAN soprano and conductor
COPLAND Dance Symphony
HAYDN Symphony No. 90 in C major Hob. I:90
OFFENBACH Gaîté Parisienne Suite (transcribed by Manuel Rosenthal)
WEILL Songs
An outstanding performer and coach, with dual roles on stage as conductor and vocalist, Barbara Hannigan was awarded the coveted Polar Music Prize in March 2025, the equivalent of a Nobel prize honouring pioneering performers. The inventiveness of the Canadian soprano and conductor shines bright in this generous programme, lighting the way, with all the colours of Munich's historic orchestra, on a path from Germany to France and North America: a work by Copland born from a ballet written in the French capital city, Haydn's symphony, the little sister of his six "Parisiennes", an Offenbach suite depicting the Second Empire, and the songs of Kurt Weill, whose exile took him from Berlin to Broadway, via Paris.
