Like close friends, some works accompany musicians over an entire lifetime. The relationship between them often changes over the years, and at times they may be displaced by others, but in one’s soul they are points of reference and fertile ground for inspiration. Our new chief conductor Christoph Eschenbach recounts his own “key works” in a series of the same name – from Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” to Bartóks Mikrokosmos.