On June 15, Brian Mulligan makes his debut at Leipzig’s historic Gewandhaus, performing with the MDR Klassik Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson as part of Bachfest Leipzig. He joins the ensembles for Shostakovich’s powerful cantata The Execution of Stepan Razin, which tells the harrowing story of the 17th-century Cossack leader who rebelled against tsarist rule. The program also features Sergey Taneyev’s John of Damascus, and orchestral arrangements of J.S. Bach works by Leopold Stokowski.
The concert will be broadcast live on MDR Klassik and repeated at 19:30.