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21. November 2022

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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16. November 2022

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.

15. November 2022

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

9. November 2022

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.

7. October 2022

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.

2. October 2022

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.

 

12. September 2022

Omer Meir Wellber at the Volksoper (September 2022)

Omer Meir Wellber began his tenure as Music Director of the Volksoper Wien on 1 September. With Jolanthe and the Nutcracker, a musical theater based on the opera and ballet by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wellber will present his first new production at the house on 9 October, together with the Artistic Director Lotte de Beer directing. Prior to this premiere, he conducts his symphonic debut with the Volksoper Orchestra and violinist Midori at the Vienna Konzerthaus on 13 September and his first opera performance at the Volksoper with Mozart’s Magic Flute on 14 September.

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8. September 2022

Max Volbers’ Debut CD “Whispers of Tradition” (September 2022)

With his debut CD Whispers of Tradition on GENUIN, recorder player Max Volbers presents “a stylistically varied program with two concertos, a world premiere, music with variable continuo instruments, and consort music. These are either paraphrases, series of variations, arrangements, pasticcios, etc. of my own – or, as in the case of the Dieupart suite, they are arranged by the composer himself for the recorder. Thanos Sakellaridis wrote the piece “Please enter the Underground” for Elisabeth and myself. What unites all the pieces is the joy of discovery and the desire to create new repertoire for the recorder.”

Along with 11 musicians and with a total of 26 different instruments, including various recorders, archlute, harpsichord, violin, viola da gamba, the winner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2021 Max Volbers, who studied with Dorothee Oberlinger among others, explores the wide range of the recorder repertoire and shows “in how many different types of ensembles the recorder can be used, and also the roles that it plays in them“.

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