News – Page 18 – PR² classic

18. January 2022

Kent Nagano (January 2022)

After a festive year 2021 in Kent Nagano’s life, with his 70th birthday and the publication of the 3 CD box set with works by Olivier Messiaen on the BR Klassik Label as well as his German book “10 Lessons of my Life – Was wirklich zählt” by Berlin Verlag, he will be in Hamburg and Paris in the coming weeks.

In Hamburg, in addition to symphony concerts with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, he will conduct revivals of Wagner’s Lohengrin and Strauss’ Elektra at the Hamburg State Opera, and further performances of John Neumeier’s Beethoven Project II.

At Opera de Paris, he will lead the new production of Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski in March 2022.

kentnagano.com

18. January 2022

Mari Kodama (January 2022)

In the concert hall La Scala in Paris, Mari Kodama will perform a program of works by John Adams, Barber, Reich and Samuel Adams with Momo Kodama (piano) in February and works for 2 pianos by Bach, Kurtág and Messiaen with Markus Hinterhäuser (piano) in Schloss Elmau in April.

Together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano, Mari Kodama played the world premiere of the piano concerto Terra Nostra by French composer Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier at the Berlin Philharmonie last October.

After the premiere in May 2021, Mari Kodama will again perform in John Neumeier’s Beethoven Project II at Hamburg Ballet in February 2022.

marikodama.com

18. January 2022

Jan Vogler (January 2022)

On the occasion of the Day of German Unity in 2021, cellist Jan Vogler received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the next two months, Jan Vogler will appear as a soloist at the Teatro Massimo for a Holocaust memorial concert and a symphony concert in Palermo and with a solo program at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Following its successful premiere at the 74th Festival de Cannes, “NEW WORLDS: THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION” (trailer) will be released in February (US) and March (Europe). Andrew Muscato’s film accompanies the concert of Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends in Athens.

janvogler.com

18. January 2022

Omer Meir Wellber (January 2022)

In two days, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the new production of Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, staged by Emma Dante, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo which will be streamed live on ARTE Concert on 20 January at 7 p.m. CET.

Omer Meir Wellber started the new year 2022 with a special concert at the Teatro Massimo with Erwin Schrott and the Teatro’s chorus and orchestra. He performed some pieces with an accordion built especially for him by the renowned Italian company Pigini.

He will return to Dresden at the Semperoper in March and April with revivals of Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as a new production of Madama Butterfly (Amon Miyamoto, staging).

omermeirwellber.com

18. January 2022

Midori (January 2022)

For her lifetime achievement, Midori was awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in May 2021.

In March 2022, Midori will tour Europe with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the orchestra with which she performed the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Violin Concerto No. 2 “To the Immortal Beloved” dedicated to her in Edinburgh in November 2021.

Together with pianist Özgür Aydin, Midori will perform in March at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Capistrano Hall in Sacramento and Chamber Music San Francisco with works of Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, and Nikos Skalkottas.

With the Festival Strings Lucerne, she will play four concerts in Germany in April, with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major and Romances Nos. 1 and 2 on the program. A joint recording of these works was released by Warner Classics in 2020.

Spoiler Alert: Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet are currently in the recording studio. Stay tuned!

midori-violin.com

16. December 2021

Concerts with Omer Meir Wellber and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg and Lübeck (December 2021)

Omer Meir Wellber presents a special program in Hamburg and Lübeck together with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. Ella Milch Sheriff’s monodrama Der ewige Fremde was premiered in February 2020 at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig with the same protagonists as here in Hamburg and Lübeck. You can find more information about the work here.

The concert will be broadcast live 19 December at 11 a.m. on NDR Kultur.

16, 19 December Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15
Milch-Scheriff: Der ewige Fremde
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 B flat major Op. 60
Augustin Hadelich – violin, Eli Danker – speaker

17 December Lübeck, Music and Congress Hall

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15
Milch-Scheriff: Der ewige Fremde
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 B flat major Op. 60
Augustin Hadelich – violin, Eli Danker – speaker

10. December 2021

Midori with Glanert’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in Hamburg (December 2021)

On 10 December, Midori plays the German premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Violin Concerto No. 2, dedicated to her, with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Brad Lubman. Glanert’s Violin Concerto was written based on the thematic model of Beethoven’s letter to the “Immortal Beloved” and, like the letter itself, is arranged in three parts.

10 December Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Brad Lubmann
Midori – Violin
Glanert: Violin Concerto No. 2 “To the Immortal Beloved”

The concert will be broadcast on NDR Kultur on 10 December at 20:00 CET.

7. December 2021

Omer Meir Wellber with the Orchestre National de France in Paris (December 2021)

On 9 December, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct a guest performance with the Orchestre National de France in Paris. The program includes Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, Dutilleux’s Correspondances for soprano and orchestra with soprano Camilla Tilling, and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 4 with Stephen Hough at the piano. Please find more information here.

9 December Paris, Auditorium Radio France
Orchestre National de France
Dutilleux: Correspondances for soprano and orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Schubert: Symphony No. 3
Camilla Tilling – soprano
Stephen Hough – piano

This concert will be broadcast live on France Musique.

3. December 2021

New recording by Francisco Fullana and Apollo’s Fire – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (November 2021)

With a recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana and Appollo’s Fire, one of the most renowned baroque orchestras in the U.S., under the direction of Jeanette Sorrell, dedicate themselves to a timeless classic (AVIE, 2021). Especially for the recording and for the occasion of the orchestra’s 30th anniversary, Jeanette Sorrel additionally arranged Vivaldi’s trio sonata La Folia as Concerto Grosso for Fullana, Alan Cho (violin, concertmaster) and the orchestra.

Jeanette Sorrell’s interpretation of the Four Seasons is strongly influenced by her former teacher, the conductor, harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt. She studied with him in Amsterdam and describes that Leonhardt taught her first and foremost “that the harpsichord should sing, and the music should speak. He taught me how to create an expressive palette of colors and moods. As I stood next to him and listened to him play my pieces, the expressive sound possibilities that I had only half imagined suddenly became crystal clear. I realized that, in order to make something happen in music, you first have to imagine it. And not just halfway. The ideas must be burned and sizzled into your imagination with 100% crystal clarity. Without imagination, there will be no music—because music, especially baroque music, is about ideas.”

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Francisco Fullana, violin
Apollo’s Fire, Baroque orchestra
Jeannette Sorrell
Release Date: October 2021READ MORE

3. December 2021

Kent Nagano conducts world premiere of Arvo Pärt (December 2021)

On 5 and 6 December, Kent Nagano will conduct works by Pärt, Stravinsky and Schumann at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Arvo Pärt is one of the most important composers of our time. In the 4th Philharmonic Concert this weekend, two works by the 86-year-old Estonian artist will be on the program: In addition to “Fratres,” the Hamburg version of “Swansong” will be heard for the first time.

More information can be found here.

Arvo Pärt: “Swansong” for Orchestra (Hamburg Version, world premiere)
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and winds
Arvo Pärt: “Fratres” for Violin, String Orchestra and Percussion
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D-minor Op. 120

Conductor: Kent Nagano
Violin: Daniel Cho
Piano: Alexei Volodin
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

PR² classic

Kontakt