Dresden Music Festival 2023 from 18 May to 18 June (November 2022)

The Dresden Music Festival 2023 will take place under the motto “BLACK AND WHITE” from 18 May to 18 June 2023.

We are looking forward to a lively and diverse 2023 festival season. Dramatic and stirring contrasts, tender nuances, and connections formed through music will all rouse discussions around our theme BLACK AND WHITE“, says Jan Vogler, director of the Dresden Music Festival.

With 63 events at 22 venues in Dresden, Jan Vogler and his team present a varied and interesting program – what to expect at the 46th Dresden Music Festival can be found in the brochure.

Mari Kodama presents new CD “New Paths” on PENTATONE (November 2022)

Mari Kodama presents “New Paths” on PENTATONE – the new CD featuring Brahms’ first piano sonata, his Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann and his Theme with Variations, and Clara Schumann’s arrangement of Robert Schumann’s song Widmung, focuses on the young Johannes Brahms and his fascinating friendship with Clara and Robert Schumann. The album derives its title from Robert Schumann’s famous essay “Neue Bahnen”, in which he heralded the young Brahms as the most eminent musical voice of the future. The recording will be available worldwide on 18 November.

 

“Hardly any relationship is as well-documented as that of Robert and Clara Schumann to Johannes Brahms: a lifelong three-way friendship in which Robert Schumann remained ever present even after his early death. The fascination that emanates from this connection of lives has touched me so much over the years that it has always been a concern of mine to musically tell the story of its beginning at some point. A 20-year-old from Hamburg came to Düsseldorf to visit the Schumanns, who were more than enthusiastic about his talent. “Your son Johannes has become very precious to us, his musical genius has created joyful hours for us. To facilitate his first walk into the world, I have publicly expressed what I think of him,” Robert wrote to Brahms’s father. The enthusiasm was mutual. For the young Brahms, the Schumanns became a point of reference, the collaboration with Clara a constant inspiration, the mutual trust, which was not limited to artistic creation, ultimately vital — not only for Brahms, but also for Clara during the very difficult phase of her husband’s illness and afterwards. I have always been moved by the depth of this bond, its absolute reliability, which became so significant for artists in the mid-19th century, in a world where traditional norms began to dissolve and society became increasingly individualised.”  – Mari Kodama

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Max Volbers in Berlin (November 2022)

Espresso Concert „Zeitenwenden“ at the Konzerthaus Berlin

Works by John Baldwin, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Luigi Nono and others with Elisabeth Wirth and Max Volbers on recorder. Please find more information here.

Omer Meir Wellber on tour with the Vienna Symphonic (November 2022)

 

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Since yesterday, Omer Meir Wellber is on tour with the Wiener Symphoniker – in Warsaw, Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Barcelona and Amsterdam, among others, he will present works by Mahler, Beethoven, Mozart and Eötvös with the orchestra. Soloists on the tour are Jan Lisiecki, Yulianna Avdeeva and Seong-Jin Cho.

15 November     Vienna, Konzerthaus
Wiener Symphoniker
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart. Da capo für Orchester
Mozart: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C-Dur K 467
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 5
Jan Lisiecki – Piano

16 November     Erlangen, Heinrich-Lades-Halle
Wiener Symphoniker
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart. Da capo für Orchester
Beethoven: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 c-moll op. 37
Beethoven : Symphonie Nr. 5 c-moll op. 67
Yulianna Avdeeva
Piano

18 November     Warsaw, National Philharmonic
Wiener Symphoniker
Eötvös: Dialog mit Mozart. Da capo für Orchester
Mozart: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C-Dur K 467
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 5
Jan Lisiecki – Piano

20 November     Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
21 November     Cologne, Philharmonie
Wiener Symphoniker
Mozart: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C-Dur K 467
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 5
Jan Lisiecki – Piano

22 November     Berlin, Philharmonie
Wiener Symphoniker
Beethoven: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 3 c-moll op. 37
Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 5 c-moll op. 67
Seong-Jin Cho Piano

24 November     Barcelona, Palau de la Musica
25 November     Zaragoza, Auditorio
27 November     Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Wiener Symphoniker
Mozart: Konzert für Klavier und Orchester C-Dur K 467
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 5
Jan Lisiecki – Piano

OUT NOW – new CD release with Midori (November 2022)

Violinist Midori releases Beethoven’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin together with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet on Warner. The ten sonatas for piano and violin, written between 1797 and 1812, are among the most significant works in the history of chamber music.

The recording is available now digitally and will be released on CD by Warner in January 2023.

Omer Meir Wellber’s first new production at the Volksoper (October 2022)

As the new music director of the Volksoper Wien, Omer Meir Wellber leads the new production of Jolanthe und der Nussknacker, a musical theater based on the opera and ballet by Tchaikovsky in a production by Volksoper director Lotte de Beer. The premiere will take place on 9 October.

In Jolanthe und der Nussknacker, the Volksoper combines Tchaikovsky’s opera Jolanthe with the ballet Der Nussknacker to create a story about a blind princess who might be cured, but only after she is told about her blindness. The result is a story about learning, life and growing up.

Please find more information about the play here.

The new 2022/23 season in Hamburg with Kent Nagano (October 2022)

Kent Nagano starts the 2022/23 season with the opening concerts of the 195th season of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg on 2 and 4 October and the premiere of the new production of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in a production by Michael Thalheimer on 23 October at the Staatsoper.

All information about concerts with Kent Nagano in Hamburg can be found here. An overview of premieres and revivals at the Staatsoper in Hamburg can be found here.

 

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