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.
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
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
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 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
The Music Room continues!
After exploring Beethoven with The Music Room: Reflecting Beethoven (2020), now follows The Music Room: Discovering Ben-Haim. On four dates, the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim will be discussed by Omer Meir Wellber and different guests from various points of view.
The episodes can be viewed via the BBC Philharmonic website, or on Twitter and Facebook. An IGTV video on Instagram will follow the next day.READ MORE
On 6 May, Kent Nagano will open this year’s Musikfest Hamburg 2021 together with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. The program includes Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and the world premiere of the Triple Concerto “Alisma”; a work for violin, violoncello, clarinet and orchestra by the Swiss composer William Blank.
Soloists in this tribute to Beethoven include cellist Jan Vogler and violinist Mira Wang, as well as Vienna Philharmonic principal clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer.
6 May at 8 p.m. via livestream
William Blank: “Alisma” Triple Concerto for violin, violoncello, clarinet and orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Violoncello: Jan Vogler
Violin: Mira Wang
Clarinet: Daniel Ottensamer
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
Please find further information here.
Omer Meir Wellber, music director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, receives the special prize of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali.
The jury’s reasons: “[…] after months of silence, homages to Beethoven and a surprise evening of jazz, shone in the empty church of the Spasimo, where the versatile fantasist Wellber played accordion and piano. It is the confirmation of the new profile, in the role of chief conductor and musical director, that we can no longer do without”
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Omer Meir Wellber returns to Stockholm for a livestream concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The concert on 16 April at 7 p.m., which will be streamed live as concert video on Berwaldhallen Play and played on Swedish Radio P2, will feature Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Contrapunctus XIV from Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto with Jacob Reuven on mandolin, Aziza Sadikova’s Mirroring contrapunctus. Contrapunctus no. 12 and Sven David Sanström’s The hidden treasure: Contrapunktus 8 from Die Kunst der Fuge on the program, as well as Robert Schumann’s 4th Symphony in D minor.READ MORE
Hyperion’s recording of works by John Tavener with Stefen Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Matthew Rose and the Philharmonia Orchestra “Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello” won the BBC Music Magazine’s Premiere Award 2021.