Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

Our 2024 season opens with the DSO debut of renowned Swiss conductor Matthias Bamert, directing a programme of music by three of Germany's greatest composers: Beethoven, Brahms and Richard Strauss. Setting the tone will be Beethoven's dramatic and joyous 'Prometheus' Overture. Richard Strauss was a great champion of the French Horn, and his first Horn Concerto remains a staple of the modern horn repertoire. All the technical skills of our soloist, NZSO Principal Horn Samuel Jacobs, will be showcased in what is considered one of the most technically demanding of all French Horn Concertos. Brahms's Third Symphony is said to be his most lyrical and best-crafted symphony - it is also the shortest. Such was its popularity in Brahms day that he thought it 'unfortunately over-famous'! Even today, the third movement is often used as theme music in television and films