Kent Nagano & the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal | CD Release & European tour (February 2014)
New CD | Beethoven: Symphonies No. 1 & 7
Just in time for their European tour in March, Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will be releasing a CD with Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 1 & 7 on Sony. The CD “Departure – Utopia” is part of a recording of all the Symphonies by Beethoven by the orchestra and its Music Director. The Symphonies No. 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9 have already been released.
European Tour | 11 to 25 March 2014
From 11 to 25 March 2014 the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano embark on a major European tour with concerts in Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Vienna, Madrid, Oviedo, Cologne, Essen and Munich.
Three of the tour concerts will be broadcast free of charge as online video streams and on the radio:
Vienna: Medici.TV – Video live stream on 17 March, 19:30 CET – available for 3 months
Cologne: Philharmonie.TV – Video live stream on 23 March, 20:00 CET
Deutschlandfunk – Radio broadcast on 6 April, 21:05 CET
Geneva: Radio Espace 2 – Radio broadcast on 9 April, 20:00 CET
As a preview of the tour the OSM’s concert on 5 March in Montréal – featuring the Swiss tour programme – will be streamed live and free of charge by Medici.TV (6 March, 2.00 am CET) and will stay available online for 3 months. The programme includes the World premiere of a new work by Swiss composer David Philip Hefti “Adagio – Beziehungsweisen für Orchester”.
The tour dates and programmes at a glance:
11 March, Zurich, Tonhalle
12 March, Bern, Kulturcasino
13 March, Geneva, Victoria Hall
Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude
David Philip Hefti: Adagio – Beziehungsweisen für Orchester European premiere
Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Marc-André Hamelin – Piano
16 March, Vienna, Konzerthaus
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Chin: Snags and Snarls (from: Alice in Wonderland)
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Ekaterina Lekhina – Soprano
17 March, Vienna, Konzerthaus
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
19 March, Madrid, Auditorio Nacional de Musica
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Chin: Snags and Snarls (from: Alice in Wonderland)
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Ekaterina Lekhina, Soprano
20 March, Madrid, Auditorio Nacional de Musica
22 March, Oviedo, Principe Felipe Hall
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
23 March, Cologne, Philharmonie
Ravel: Mother Goose, Ballet
Chin: Snags and Snarls (from: Alice in Wonderland)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 1
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Ekaterina Lekhina – Soprano
24 March, Essen, Philharmonie
Vivier: Orion
Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14
Kit Armstrong – Piano
25 March, Munich, Philharmonie im Gasteig
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14
Marc-André Hamelin – Piano
Mussorgsky’s opera „Boris Godunov“ was Kent Nagano’s final new production in his last season as Music Director at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. The label Bel Air will now release a DVD of the performance beginning of February. “If there was a live recording, one would have to get it immediately“, wrote Helmut Mauró on 14 February 2013 at the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the occasion of the premiere.