Omer Meir Wellber in Vienna with audience (May 2021)
After a long time, Austria again opens its houses to the public and Omer Meir Wellber gives the first concert after a long time with the Wiener Symphoniker and Julian Rachlin. The program includes Prokofiev‘s Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 in g-minor and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor. The concert will be played a total of three times.READ MORE
The OSM at Deutschlandfunk’s “Konzertmitschnitte” (May 2021)
“Konzertmitschnitte” on Deutschlandfunk: On 23 May at 9:05 p.m. CET with Rafael Payare and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
Program:
Hector Berlioz: “Le Carnaval romain,” op. 9
Sofia Gubaidulina: “Fairytale Poem” for orchestra
Antonio Estévez: “Mediodía en el Llano” for orchestra
Maurice Ravel: “Ma mère l’oye.” Suite for orchestra
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Conductor: Rafael Payare
Recordings made on 10, 13 and 18 January 2021 from the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
The Metropolitan Opera in Versailles – Met Stars Live in Concert at the Royal Opera House (May 2021)
Live from the Royal Opera House of Versailles – three “divas,” Met stars Ailyn Pérez, Nadine Sierra and Isabel Leonard present an extraordinary program of arias and scenes from the most popular operas, such as Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, as well as songs by Rossini and Manuel Ponce, among others, on May 22 at 7 p.m. CET as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. READ MORE
David Philip Hefti’s “Con fuoco” livestreamed (May 2021)
David Philip Hefti’s 4th string quartet “Con fuoco” will be performed by the Amaryllis Quartet on Sunday, 16 May at 5 p.m. via livestream as part of the PUTBUS Festival 2021. This year’s festival theme Fire, originating in the general leitmotif which follows the four-year cycle of the four elements, plays an important role in this concert. The evening is called, after all, “con fuoco” – “with fire” in Italian. two milestones of the chamber music join the string quartet “con fuoco” by the Swiss composer David Philip Hefti, that makes the audience hear the fire-place crackle and shooting stars sparkle.
The concert at a glance:
16 May, 5 p.m. Live on YouTube.
Amaryllis Quartet
Jens Peter Maintz
Matthias Kirschnereit
Hefti: String Quartet No. 4 “Con fuoco
Schubert: String quintet in C major D 956
Schumann: Piano quintet in E flat major, op. 44
More information about the concert here.
Francisco Fullana – EP release (May 2021)
Francisco Fullana’s EP BACH’S LONG SHADOW: The Chaconne Files was releasedby Orchid Classics digitally on 14 May.
Featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita in D minor and Joan Valent’s Punta Campanella, which are not included on the CD, Fullana gives a taste of the CD to follow.
The CD release of BACH’S LONG SHADOW will be on 28 May 2021.
Omer Meir Wellber with the BBC Philharmonic on BBC Radio 3 (May 2021)
On 12 May at 7:30 pm UK time, the BBC Philharmonic with their Chief Conductor, Omer Meir Wellber, present a programme with two symphonies by Joseph Haydn, No.s 34 and 46. They are joined by pianist Daniel Ciobanu for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 (K488).
Haydn: Symphony No. 34
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 (K 488)
Haydn: Symphony No. 46
Daniel Ciobanu – piano
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber – conductor
Opening concert of the International Music Festival Hamburg: Kent Nagano & Philharmonic State Orchestra with Jan Vogler, Mira Wang and Daniel Ottensamer (May 2021)
01:05 William Blank: „Alisma“ Tripelkonzert für Violine, Violoncello, Klarinette und Orchester
23:12 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 5 c-Moll op. 67 „Schicksalssymponie“
Kent Nagano, conductor
Mira Wang, violin
Jan Vogler, violoncello
Daniel Ottensamer, clarinet
Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg
“Wagner Readings” Podcast with Kent Nagano (May 2021)
Podcast on research results of the “Wagner Readings” presented by the Friends of Concerto Köln and the Kunststiftung NRW.
Episode 01: In the first episode of the podcast on the Wagner Readings, hosts Thilo Braun and Niklas Rudolph introduce the project: a historically-informed “Ring of the Nibelung”. Kent Nagano, Jochen Schäfsmeier, Kai Hinrich Müller and the musicians of Concerto Köln explain how the Wagner readings came about.
Starting on 6 May, the podcast will appear at 14-day intervals on Spotify and at https://wagner-lesarten.de. The associated scientific publications will be released at the same time.
Midori in Spain for three concerts (April 2021)
Midori will be a guest of the Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae for three concerts. In Tarragona, Lleida and Barcelona, she will perform Brahms Violin Concerto in D major with the orchestra under Tomàs Grau. All three concerts will take place in front of an audience.
The concerts at a glance:
24 April, 8:30 p.m.: Teatre Tarragona, Tarragona
25 April, 7 p.m.: Auditori Enric Granados, Lleida
26 April, 8 p.m.: Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona
Orquestra Simfònica Camera Musicae, Tomàs Grau
Brahms: Violin concerto in D major
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture