On 7 April 2019 Jan Vogler, together with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, will perform works by CPE Bach and Haydn under the direction of concert master Daniel Giglberger at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Already in 2007 he recorded CPE Bach’s cello concerto in A major Wq 172 with the orchestra and Reinhard Goebel and released it on the CD “Concerti Brillanti”.
Further information about the concert can be found here.
Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, will conduct the German premiere of George Benjamin’s opera Lessons in Love and Violence staged by Katie Mitchell with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra on 7 April 2019. The work is a co-commission with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (world premiere 10 May 2018), De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Opéra de Lyon, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and the Teatro Real Madrid. Additional performance dates in Hamburg include 10, 13 and 18 April.
Lessons in Love and Violence tells a story of blood, power, dynasty, jealousy, treason and sex. All those themes, found in plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been stirred by playwright Martin Crimp and composer George Benjamin into a musical frame: hot and cold, passionate and restrained.
Find here further information on the new production at the Hamburg State Opera.
The premiere will be broadcast live on NDR Kultur at 18.00 CET. Click here to listen live.
On Friday, 5 April, the Elbphilharmonie will host a public discussion with Kent Nagano and George Benjamin including live music by the composer himself and with chamber works by Mahler, Messiaen and others. Find here more information on the event.
On 3 April, David Philip Hefti’s Flute Concerto Media nox – Music for the third nocturnal vigil for flute and orchestra will be premiered at the Heidelberger Frühling festival by Tatjana Ruhland and the Deutschen Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern under the baton of Jamie Philips. The concert will be recorded for radio broadcast by the German public radio station Saarländischer Rundfunk. As an ‘encore’, Jörg Tröger will talk with David Philip Hefti, Tatjana Ruhland and Dietrich Götze, who initiated and donated the commission.
David Philip Hefti about Media nox:
„The harmonies of this work are primarily quarter-tone, and explore the sounds of twilight, the night, spheres, dreams, sleeplessness and hallucinations. They create sound-surfaces alternately static, animated and iridescent that are the central idea of the work; these are then repeatedly roughened up by the rhythmic and melodic threads woven by the solo flute. This microtonal music is what I repeatedly here in the twilight state between sleep and sleeplessness.“
Here you can find a podcast (in German) of the Heidelberger Frühling featuring David Philip Hefti, who talks about composing his Flute Concerto Media nox for Tatjana Ruhlan, and here a mutual video of David Philip Hefti and Tatjana Ruhland about this project. In an interview with SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik, Tatjana Ruhland speaks about the upcoming world premiere of this work, here you can listen to it.
Overview on the world premiere in Heidelberg:
3 April, 19.30 – Heidelberg, Stadthalle – Heidelberger Frühling
Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, Jamie Phillips
Hefti: Media nox – Music for the third nocturnal vigil for flute and orchestra – World Premiere
Tatjana Ruhland – Flute
You can find further information on the concert here.
On Thursday, 21 March, Omer Meir Wellber conducted his debut concert in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie orchestra, with works by Haydn, Schnitte and Tchaikovsky.
The concert was streamed live on ARTE Concert and is now available for 90 days. Click here.
On Monday, 25 March, Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal together with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will be guest in the Berlin Philharmonie. It will be the farewell concert of the Europe tour of Kent Nagano and the OSM.
The concert will be streamed live on Medici.TV and the Facebook page of the OSM. The stream is available worldwide except in Germany. Please click here. One day later, the entire concert will be available worldwide without exception for 30 days on the OSM website.
Find here further information on the concert.
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From Thursday, 21 March, Omer Meir Wellber will conduct concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie and will have his debut at the rostrum of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He and the orchestra will present works by Tchaikovsky, Haydn and Schnittke.
The concert on 21 March will be streamed live on ARTE Concert. The concert stream will then be available for 90 days. Click here.
Furthermore, Omer Meir Wellber will be guest at the German popular TV show DAS! in the North German TV channel NDR. You can watch live on Wednesday, 20 March from 18.45 – 19.30 German time. Click here for further information.
On 19 and 20 March, Midori will be guest at the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra. Under the baton of Julia Jones, she will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto.
Overview over the concert:
19, 20 March, 20.00 – Dortmund, Konzerthaus
Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Julia Jones
Brahms: Violin Concerto
On Wednesday, 13 March, cellist Jan Vogler will play a concert with pianist Martin Stadtfeld and violinist Gil Shaham in the Kulturpalast Dresden presented by the Dresden Music Festival.
On the program will be chamber works by Dvořák and Brahms. Find here further information on the concert.
On Monday, 11 March the big European tour by Kent Nagano and the OSM will start with a concert in Dusseldorf. On the program will be works by Debussy, Mozart and Stravinsky.
The orchestra and Kent Nagano will also be guest in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Concert House and Paris’ Cité de la musique, among others.
Soloists of the tour are pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Rafał Blechacz as well as alto Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
Find here an overview of the tourdates.