This fall, some of the world's best orchestras wil be touring the world to celebrate their new seasons. From Spain to Boston via Amsterdam, here's where you can catch some top-class classical concerts.
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in AmsterdamAs part of their long "RCO Meets Europe" tour, running from August 27 (Dublin) through the 2018/2019 season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will perform one opening work alongside a local youth orchestra at every show. The orchestra has set itself the challenge of visiting every one of the 28 member states of the European Union, with a stop-off back home in Amsterdam to inaugurate Maestro Gatti as the RCO's seventh chief conductor.
From September 1, the famous LSO will be flying over to Italy for the Merano Music Festival, before embarking on a tour of Italy (Turin, Milan, Locarno, Stresa, Verona), Prague and Spain (Barcelona, Madrid). Gianandrea Noseda will be conducting the orchestra to classical pieces including Debussy's "La mer", Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" overture and Verdi's "Requiem."
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Before they leave on their own European tour in January, the CSO has a busy home-based autumn calendar that includes Riccardo Muti conducting Strauss's showpiece "Don Juan" and Bruckner's "Seventh Symphony" (September 22-27), and Joyce DiDonato's CSO debut in Martucci's "La canzone dei ricordi" ("Song of Remembrance") from September 29-October 1.
To open the new Fall 2016 concert season, the Vienna Philharmonic, or Wiener Philharmoniker, are heading to Japan from October 1 at locations around the country including Tokyo, Hiroshima and Osaka. The orchestra and conductors Zubin Mehta and Seiji Ozawa will be performing Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9 in D minor", Mozart's "Symphony [No. 36] in C major" and more.
The Berlin PhilharmonicFrom November 9-23 the celebrated Berlin Philharmonic is touring around the US, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York and Michigan. They will also be making one stop in Toronto after Michigan. Pieces by Webern, Schoenberg, Berg, Brahms, Boulez and Mahler are on the lineup, to be conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
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