The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano will present the eighth edition of the Virée Classique/Classical Spree Festival in Montréal from 7 to 11 August.
Click here for more information on the concert programmes and dates.
The OSM has produced a trailer for the Virée Classique.
The Moritzburg Festival 2019 will take place from 4 – 18 August. It will be the 27th edition of the festival. The artistic director of the festival is the cellist Jan Vogler.
This year’s patron is the soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Here you can find the programme and further information about the festival.
The new CD by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be released on 23 August 2019.
With the recording of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony, the PSO and Manfred Honeck continue their successful collaboration with Reference Recordings.
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 D minor (1896)
I. Feierlich – Sehr ruhig
II. Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft – Trio: Schnell
III. Adagio: Sehr langsam, feierlich
Hybrid SACD contains 5.0 and Stereo SACD & CD Stereo
😃Looking forward to our first @bbcproms concert this year @RoyalAlbertHall with our conductor #OmerMeirWellber & soloist @yeoleumson
🎶Listen live tonight @BBCRadio3 7.30pm 🎶#BBCProms pic.twitter.com/DbUKJMTgRD
— BBC Philharmonic (@BBCPhilharmonic) July 23, 2019
On 23 and 29 July 2019, Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut as the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and simultaneously at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
23 July, London, Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 KV 450
Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1
Schönberg: Five orchestral pieces op. 16
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
29 July, London, Royal Albert Hal BBC Proms
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Haydn: Creation
Find further information on those concerts here.
Jan Vogler is often referred to as Dresden’s “artistic foreign minister”. As artistic director of the music festival, the cellist invites renowned artists to the Elbe and promotes the city worldwide.
You can find more information about the programme here.
Kent Nagano on SWR Classic Backstage Talk
The concert with Mari Kodama and the SWR Symphony Orchestra will be broadcast live on July 19 on SWRClassic.de and SWRClassic’s Facebook page.
Also in this year, Midori will be back at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar to teach at the Weimar Master Classes. From Saturday, 20 July on, international students will have the opportunity to receive lessons from Midori. In addition to individual and group lessons, the orchestra studio with the Jenaer Philharmonie as well as a participant concert at the end of the course, Midori will bring music together with her students to a social institution in the city.
Further master classes will follow in August in Domaine Forget (Canada) and Krzyzowa (Poland).
On 18, 19 and 20 July, Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano will be guests at the SWR Symphonieorchester in Stuttgart and Freiburg. They will perform Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto and Bruckner’s Symphony Nr. 6.
The concert on 19 July will be video streamed live on SWRClassic and SWRClassic’s facebook page.
Overview on the concerts:
18, 19 July, 20.00 – Stuttgart, Liederhalle
SWR Symphonieorchester
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto op. 42
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 A Major
19 July, 20.00: Live Video Stream on SWRClassic.de
20 July, 20.00 – Freiburg, Konzerthaus
s. 18 July
Further information on the concerts (in German) can be found here.
Midori has been named as one of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Great Immigrants for 2019. Every Fourth of July, the Corporation salutes 38 naturalised citizens who strengthen the United States’ economy, culture and communities.
The Corporation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie, was himself a naturalised citizen. He was born in Scotland and rose out of poverty to become one of the greatest contributors to American industry and philanthropy. He was a staunch advocate for immigration and the Great Immigrant initiative was founded in 2006 to honour his legacy. To date it has honoured nearly 600 individuals.