Münchner Kammerphilharmonie dacapo

Founded in 2000, the Münchner Kammerphilharmonie Dacapo has established itself as a fixture of the Bavarian capital’s musical life, performing regularly at venues such as the Herkulessaal, the Philharmonie at the Gasteig and the Künstlerhaus Munich, as well as abroad. Its repertoire spans music from the Baroque to the present, with a particular focus on lesser-known works of late Romanticism and early modernism. The ensemble was founded by Franz Schottky, who is also its chief conductor and artistic director. One of the last students of Sergiu Celibidache, he has guided the orchestra in developing a rich and deeply considered performance practice. On this occasion the ensemble appears with the young Italian cellist Ettore Pagano, winner of the 2025 Abbiati Prize and the 2025 ICMA-Classeek Award. A graduate of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Pagano is currently continuing his studies at the Berlin University of the Arts.

The programme opens with two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, recalling the fact that opera was his central creative passion. The evening begins with the overtures to La finta giardiniera and Apollo et Hyacinthus, works which reveal the remarkable maturity of Mozart’s approach to opera from an early age: the former was written when the composer was eighteen, the latter when he was just eleven. At the heart of the concert is Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2, composed in 1784, a key work in the cello repertoire by the “father of the symphony and the string quartet”. The programme is rounded off by Jean Sibelius’s Frederick Delius's Air and Dance and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29.