Jan Vogler with Friedrich Gulda’s cello concerto in Vienna (June 2024)
Cellist Jan Vogler will travel to Vienna on 27 and 29 June with a special program under the baton of conductor Omer Meir Wellber to play Friedrich Gulda’s concerto for cello and wind orchestra at Volksoper.
The concerto for cello and wind orchestra by Vienna-born Friedrich Gulda is a rarely performed work, which also stands out because of its special instrumentation. The premiere took place in 1981 with Heinrich Schiff, one of Jan Vogler’s teachers, and Wiener Bläserensemble under the direction of the composer.
June 27 & 29, Vienna, Volksoper Vienna
Orchestra of the Volksoper Vienna, Omer Meir Wellber
Gulda: Concerto for cello and wind orchestra
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major, D 200
Omer Meir Wellber and Jan Vogler know each other from various projects, such as the CD recording of Pop Songs (Sony Classical, 2022) and concerts at the Dresden Music Festival, among others. On June 22 and 28, Wellber, who has just conducted the new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Daniele Menghini at the Teatro Massimo, will conduct Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Volksoper Vienna. Further information on omermeirwellber.com
Jan Vogler is currently the artistic director of the Dresden Music Festival in Dresden, where the festival is taking place until June 9. Yesterday he played Anna Clyne’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Dance with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Kulturpalast, followed by concerts in Heidenheim with the Dresden Festival Orchestra on June 10, in Rostock with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie on June 16, 17 and 18 and at Schloss Neuhardenberg on June 19. His latest CD recording with the world premiere recording of Enrique Casal’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in F major and Edouard Lalo’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D minor was released by Sony Classical in March 2023 – together with the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, the CD commemorates the 200th birthday of Édouard Lalo and is also a tribute to Pablo Casals on the 50th anniversary of his death. These pieces were recorded with the 50 young musicians of the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra under the direction of Josep Caballé Domenech.
Further information at janvogler.com