Conductor Charles Dutoit to conduct Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Matthias Goerne

Maestro conductor Charles Dutoit will conduct Shanghai Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night, playing Beethoven Symphony No 7.

In his career spanning six decades Detoit has performed with all the major orchestras in the world as one of the most sought-after conductors. He received two of the most prestigious honors in the music world: in 2017, the gold medal of the "Royal Philharmonic Society" and the "Premio una Vita nella Musica 2022" from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

The concert will feature German baritone Matthias Goerne, who is the artist in residence at SSO for the 2024/25 music season. Goerne made his first collaboration with SSO in last January singing the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magic Horn) by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

This time he will sing another composition by Mahler, Ruckert Lieder, a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866). Ruckert was an editor and professor of Oriental languages, wrote poetry in imitation of Asian and Middle Eastern styles, in addition to the beautiful examples of German lyric romantic poems which Mahler collected for this set of songs.