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The Moritzburg Festival has welcomed approximately 6500 guests this summer. The festival celebrated its final concert previous Sunday, 20 August in the church of Moritzburg. It was the 25. festival edition.
Festival director Jan Vogler stated after: «The Moritzburg idea is alive and vital. It radiates with power into the music world.»
The festival next year will take place from 11 -26 August 2018.
The Moritzburg Festival will celebrate its 25. anniversary. Under the artistic direction of cellist Jan Vogler, the festival has established itself as one of the world’s leading chamber music festivals.
The opening concert will take place on 5 August in the Gläserne Manufaktur of Volkswagen in Dresden.
Find here the latest press release by the festival and here the entire program at a glance.
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On 7, 8 and 10 July cellist Jan Vogler will perform concerts together with pianist Hélène Grimaud in Germany. Both will play Duo concerts at Schloss Neuhardenberg, at the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival as well as in Essen, at Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
Works by Schumann, Shostakovich, Debussy and Brahms will be on the program.
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends Present New Worlds Recording To Be Released September 2017 on Decca Gold
Through a chance meeting on a flight from Berlin to New York, actor Bill Murray and cellist Jan Vogler became fast friends, curious about each others’ artistic worlds and interests. The result of their collaboration is New Worlds, an unexpected and enchanting exploration of the intersection of music and literature. Both the recording and live events feature songs paired with literary readings brought to life with classical music.
The ensemble performing New Worlds consists of Bill Murray (vocals and narration), Jan Vogler (cello), Mira Wang (violin) and Vanessa Perez (piano) – four musicians whose origins span four different continents. Bill Murray comments, “I am bathing in this experience, really. I can’t get enough of it.”
New Worlds had its world premiere on June 4 at the Dresden Music Festival, Germany, with its U.S. premiere to follow on July 20 at the Festival Napa Valley, California. The US fall tour will culminate with a performance at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on October 16, 2017 (Tickets: www.carnegiehall.org) A world tour is confirmed for the fall and into 2018 (itinerary below).
The recording will be released this September on Decca Gold (the new U.S. classical imprint of Universal Music Group), marking Mr. Murray’s first official complete recorded album on a classical music label.
In a recent New York Times story following the final recording session, the project was put into focus: “Mr. Murray described the idea as ‘the collision of America and Europe,’ in part reflected in the backgrounds of each of the four members of his new group. ‘We are from four different continents,’ he said. ‘And when the continents come together, the music moves right across the peninsulas from one to the other. It’s just a short journey from one continent to the other.”
New Worlds showcases American values in literature and music, and the bridges artists have built between America and Europe. Twain, Hemingway, Whitman, Cooper, Bernstein, Bach, Piazzolla, Mancini, Gershwin and Foster are some of the writers and composers represented on New Worlds–masters whose distinct voices have influenced generations in America and beyond. Jan Vogler says, “I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.”
This endeavor between great music and great literature brings together an unexpected collective of creative forces, each at the top of their fields. Jan Vogler’s distinguished career has pushed the boundaries of classical music. He is known for his strong curatorial approach to his music making, combining history, classical tradition and a contemporary style of performance. Bill Murray, in his own right, has forged the most independent career in Hollywood, weaving comedy and depth into some of the most memorable roles in cinema.
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From 5 – 20 August 2017 the 25. Moritzburg Festival will take place.
Under the artistic direction of cellist Jan Vogler, the festival has established itself as one of the world’s leading chamber music festivals.
Every August, internationally renowned soloists and outstanding young artists from all over the world meet in idyllic Moritzburg near Dresden. Together they work on new interpretations of chamber music works and present them in dynamic, flexible formations.
On 5 August the opening concert will take place in Volkswagen’s “Die Gläserne Manufaktur” in Dresden, presented by the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra conducted by Josep Caballé Domenech. Violinist Mira Wang and violist Ruth Killius will play Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante E flat major KV 364.
Well-known musicians such as violinists Arabella Steinbacher, Ning Feng and Baiba Skride, violist Lawrence Power and pianist Lise de la Salle will follow the invitation to the Saxon idyll.
Composer-in-residence in 2017 will be Sven Helbig.
Find this year’s program here.
On 30 April 2017 cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Nicola Benedetti together with the Dresden Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivor Bolton played a concert in in the new Dresden concert hall of the Kulturpalast on the occasion of its opening.
The concert was recorded by ARTE Concert and can be watched on demand here.
The CD New Worlds will combine US literature by Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and Fenimore Cooper with works by Bach, Schubert, Piazzolla and Gershwin.
Next to cellist Jan Vogler and Bill Murray, who will sing and recite the texts, violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez will take part in the project. As Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends they will premiere the program on 4 June 2017 at Dresden Music Festival. From July 2017 they will tour through North America et al in New York Carnegie Hall.