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21. January 2021

David Philip Hefti

Several works by Swiss conductor and composer David Philip Hefti have been and will be released on CD and digitally. In November 2020, NEOS released Die Schneekönigin on CD with soprano Mojca Erdmann, actress Delia Mayer and actor Max Simonischek as well as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich as a live recording of the world premiere in November 2018. On Musiques Suisses / NAXOS , the CD swiss clarinett music followed at the end of 2020 with three works by Hefti, recorded by Benjamin Engeli, Nils Kohler, Ernesto Molinari and Bernhard Röthlisberger. Also on NEOS, a new chamber music CD Light and Shade with the Amaryllis Quartet together with Maria Riccarda Wesseling and Bernhard Röthlisberger will be released in spring 2021.

21. January 2021

Leonidas Kavakos

Leonidas Kavakos also contributed to the Beethoven Year 2020. From December 2020, the complete Beethoven violin sonata cycle, which he recorded together with pianist Enrico Pace at the Salzburg Mozarteum in 2013, will be shown on Arte Concert.

See Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 12.1 right here:

On Saturday, January 23, from 7 p.m. MEZ the concert with the Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev and Leonidas Kavakos with Gautier Capuçon will be available as a stream at www.mphil.de/stream until January 30. The program includes Brahms’ Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchestra in A minor, op. 102, and Bahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F major, op. 90.

20. January 2021

David Philip Hefti in Conversation at SRF 2 Kultur (January 2021)

On January 20, 2021, David Philip Hefti will be heard on SRF 2 Kultur in conversation with Florian Hauser. At 20:00, the composer will talk about his life’s work of composing and other states of creativity. You can find more information here. (The radio conversation is unfortunately only available in Switzerland).

At 21:00 you can listen to the review of the music theater Die Schneekönigin, released on CD in November 2020, which was created in 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich. Listen in here.

19. January 2021

Mari Kodama

Pentatone released two CDs by Mari Kodama last year. The solo CD Kaleidoscope – Beethoven Transcriptions with transcriptions of Beethoven’s string quartets for piano by Saint-Saëns, Mussorgsky and Balakirev as well as Beethoven’s variations of the finale of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. Then the duo CD MON AMI, Mon amour – French Repertoire for Cello and Piano with Matt Haimovitz, with works by Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Darius Milhaudso.

In December 2020, the world premiere of John Neumeier’s new ballet with Mari Kodama at the piano was scheduled, with a total of 13 performances of Beethoven Project II. More information about dates will be announced soon. Here you can already find some impressions.

19. January 2021

Kent Nagano

After more tha n a decade as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, two recordings with Kent Nagano and the OSM were released last year. Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion, which was recorded on the opening night of the prestigious Salzburg Festival at the Felsenreitschule Salzburg in July 2018, on BIS-Records and the album Ginastera – Bernstein – Moussa: Works for Violin and Orchestra with Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the OSM on Analekta.

19. January 2021

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck release new recording with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck celebrate the orchestra’s 125^th anniversary with the release of a new recording with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Reference Recordings. The recording features soloists Christina Landshamer, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Werner Güra and Shenyang, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh.

This hybrid SACD release was recorded in Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, the home of the orchestra and is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series released on the FRESH! imprint from Reference Recordings.READ MORE

19. January 2021

Book launch with Omer Meir Wellber at Sellerio Editore – “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” (January 2021).

On January 25 at 6:30 p.m., Omer Meir Wellber will present the Italian translation of his novel “Die vier Ohnmachten des Chaim Birkner” (The Four Faints of Chaim Birkner) in a live conversation on YouTube.

“Storia vera e non vera di Chaim Birkner” will be published on January 21 by the Italian publisher Sellerio Editore Palermo.

More information can be found here and the live conversation will be presented here.

19. January 2021

Omer Meir Wellber at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo – livestream (January 2020)

On 26 January, Teatro Massimo opens the 2021 season with a special production with Omer Meir Wellber and Johannes Erath.

With “Il crepuscolo dei sogni,” Wellber and Erath trace a dreamlike path between light and shadow, from Strauss’s “Traum durch die Dämmerung” to Schubert’s “Winterreise,” from the shadows of “Verleumdung” in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and the ascent in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. In between, the gaze continually wanders from Italian to German and Russian opera, from the Baroque with Purcell and Monteverdi to the twentieth century with Bernstein and Korngold.

More information can be found here.READ MORE

15. January 2021

Concert stream with Kent Nagano, the Munich Philharmonic, Marie-Luise Modersohn and Julian Shevlin (January 2021)

Last June, Kent Nagano was conducting the Munich Philharmonic; Marie-Luise Modersohn and Julian Shevlin played as the orchestra’s own soloists. The video production of this concert program will be available free of charge from January 16 (7 p.m.) to January 23 (7 p.m.) at mphil.de/stream.

Program:

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / MAX REGER
»O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß« BWV 622
Concerto for oboe, violin, strings and basso continuo in D minor BWV 1060
BELA BARTOK
Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta

Kent Nagano, Conductor
Marie-Luise Modersohn, Oboe
Julian Shevlin, Violin

15. January 2021

Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczala at the Stadthalle Wuppertal with Met Stars Live in Concert (January 2021)

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała will perform a live concert on Saturday, January 23, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features popular arias and duets from some of the many classic operas they’ve performed at the Met and other world stages, including Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino and Luisa Miller, and Dvořák’s Rusalka. The singers will be accompanied by Vincenzo Scalera on piano. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days.

More information can be found here.

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