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28. August 2018

On 1 and 2 September, violinist Francisco Fullana will give chamber concerts in North Germany, on the occasion of the Krzyżowa Music Tour (Artistic director: Viviane Hagner).

Find here an overview of both concerts:

1 September
Hasselburg, Herrenhaus
Paderewski: Violin sonata
Schubert: Cello quintet
Penderecki: Sextet

2 September
Ulrichshusen, Castle
s. 1 September

The concert in the Castle of Ulrichshusen is part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Find here more information regarding this concert.

27. August 2018

new CD by Manfred Honeck & the PSO: Works by Beethoven & Strauss at Reference Recordings ( August 2018)

On September 21, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director Manfred Honeck will release their new CD, presenting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” as well as Strauss’ Horn concerto No. 1 (William Caballero – Horn) with the audiophile label Reference Recordings. It will be the eighth collaboration together with the label.

Find here further information provided by the label.

27. August 2018

Jan Vogler: Moritzburg Festival Finale on 26 August (August 2018)

On 26 August, the 26th Moritzburg Festival ended with a brilliant final in the church of Moritzburg: persistent applause and standing ovations after Mendelssohns string octet op. 20, the traditional final piece. The Artistic director Jan Vogler sums up:
“Moritzburg’s exceptional audience inspired artists from all over the world and highly motivated us musicians. What unique atmospheres at the concerts and a wonderful dialogue between music, nature and architecture. ”

Over the past two weeks, international soloists such as Nils Mönkemeyer, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Avi Avital, Mira Wang, Arnaud Sussmann, Olli Mustonen, Pauline Sachse, Paul Huang, Jan Vogler, Yeree Suh, Richard O’Neill and Alexander Sitkovetsky have been working on dynamic chamber ensembles.

The short, multi-faceted compositions by Dai Fujikura, Composer-in-Residence 2018, set exciting contrasts.

23. August 2018

Midori at The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood (August 2018)

On 25 August 2018, Midori will perform a movement of Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium at the Bernstein Centenary Celebration at Tanglewood together with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach. Already as a 14 year old she had performed this work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer himself at Tanglewood.

Overview
25 August, 20.00 – Lenox, Koussevitzky Music Shed Tanglewood
(The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Bernstein: Movement from aus Serenade after Plato’s Symposium

Link to the event.

23. August 2018

Kent Nagano – Interview on BBC Radio 3’s “Inside Music” on the occasion of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday (August 2018)

On 25 August 2018 – Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday – BBC Radio 3 will broadcast at 13.00 British time an interview with Kent Nagano in a special edition of “Inside Music”. Principal subject of the interview is Leonard Bernstein, but Kent Nagano also talks about other works, such as J.S. Bachs Goldberg Variations or Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen.

Overview:
25 August 2018, 13.00 BST
BBC Radio 3, “Inside Music”
Link to the show

17. August 2018

Manfred Honeck takes over concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchester (August 2018)

Manfred Honeck will take over four concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchester in the end of August and early September. He will step in for Daniele Gatti. Soloist will be soprano Anett Fritsch.

Find here all four concerts as an overview:

23 August – Amsterdam, Concertgebouw

3 September – Ljubljana, Cankarjev Dom Cultural and Congress Center’

4 September – Berlin, Philharmonie

5 September – Lucerne, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum (Lucerne Festival)

Find further information on the concerts here.

14. August 2018

Kent Nagano conducts premiere of “The Bassarids” (August 2018)

On 16 August 2018 the new production of “The Bassarids” staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski will celebrate its premiere. Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Vienna Philharmonics in the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg.

Further performances will take place on 19, 23 and 26 August.

Find here further information about this production.

10. August 2018

Midori at the Parnü Music Festival (August 2018)

On 11 August, Midori will perform Sibelius’ Violin Concert at the Pärnu Music Festival. Paavo Järvi will be conducting the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

The concert at a glance:

11 August, 20.00
Parnü, Concert Hall Pärnu Music Festival
Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Further details can be found here.

8. August 2018

Jan Vogler’s Moritzburg Festival starts on 11 August (August 2018)

From 11 – 26 August, this year’s Moritzburg Festival will take place at castle Moritzburg in Saxony. Cellist Jan Vogler is founder and Artistic Director of the festival. This year’s patron is Prof. Monika Grütters, minister of State for culture and media in Germany.

Find here the festival’s program and further information.

8. August 2018

Film “La mission de Kent Nagano” is online (August 2018)

The film “La mission de Kent Nagano” by Inge Kloepfer and Nadja Frenz (NDR/ARTE 2017) is available on YouTube. The documentary is in German, French and English language.

Clicke here, to watch the film.

Find here information about the tv documentary by production company Vincent.TV.

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