The Odeonsplatz Concert: Münchner Philharmoniker, Yuja Wang & Valery Gergiev

Munich’s Odeonsplatz Concert is one of the open-air highlights of the year. The magnificent Residenz Palace on one side and the serene, towering Theatinerkirche on the other provide the ideal backdrop for exceptional performances of classical music. In this setting, Chinese star pianist Yuja Wang, Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker present an atmospheric concert programme consisting of two works which are at the same time popular and demanding: Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which Wang performs “with vertiginous virtuosity, somnambulistic sovereignty, a fine sense of dramaturgy and rhythmic perfection” (Münchner Merkur), and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.