Omer Meir Wellber will conduct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at this year’s Glyndebourne Festival. For this he will stand at the rostrum of London Philharmonic Orchestra. The Premiere of this production by Annilese Miskimmon will be celebrated on 19 May.
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The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and Kent Nagano are proud to present the world premiere recording of the chamber version of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘A Quiet Place’, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland. It will be released on 22 June, ahead of the Bernstein centenary on 25th August 2018.
Premiered in 1983, Bernstein’s opera ‘A Quiet Place’ was the composer’s last work written for the stage and remains one of his lesser known large-scale compositions. The concert-version presented on the new album features a chamber orchestra and was recorded live at the Maison symphonique de Montréal in May 2017.
Kent Nagano was introduced to Bernstein by Seiji Ozawa in 1984 and studied with him until his death in 1990. Nagano says, “For Bernstein music was life – the two were synonymous, inseparable. He never stopped exploring and pushing his own compositional language. The goal in this particular adaptation is to allow the spirited brilliance and poetic depth of the work to shine through – including dance rhythms and elements of American folklore. Our hope is that the timeless and universal quality of the piece and the genius of the composition are laid bare in this new recording.”
On Wednesday, 16 May German cellist Jan Vogler is going on tour with violinist Nicola Benedetti, pianist Martin Stadtfeld and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian. The tour will lead them to Austria and Slovenia. Together they will perform Beethoven’s Triple concerto.
The tour venues are the following:
16 May Bregenz, Festspielhaus
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Nicola Benedetti – Violine
Martin Stadtfeld – Piano
17 May Innsbruck, Congress
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19 May Ljubljana, Cankarjev Dom
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On 13 May 2018, Midori plays with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with Constantinos Carydis conducting. In celebration of Bernstein’s anniversary they perform his Serenade after Plato’s Symposion, which Midori already played at her debut at Tanglewood as a 14 year old under the baton of the composer himself. You can find further information on the concert here.
Overview on the concert:
13 May, 20:00
Berlin, Philharmonie
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Constantinos Carydis
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s Symposion
On 13 and 14 May 2018, Chief conductor Kent Nagano will conduct the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg with a program by Robert Schumann in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
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On Tuesday, 8 May, German cellist Jan Vogler will be guest at the Royal Danish Orchestra in the Opera House in Copenhagen. The concert will be conducted by Hartmut Haenchen. Jan Vogler will play Shostakovich’s Cello concerto No. 2 op. 126.
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Two days later, on 10 May, orchestra, soloist and conductor will open the Dresden Music Festival in the Kulturpalast in Dresden.
David Philip Hefti, Jan Schultsz and Benjamin Herzog talk about different recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintett G Minor op.57. Please tune in on 7 and 12 May 2018 on Swiss Radio SRF2 Kultur. You can find further details here.
On 6, 8 and 10 May General Music Director Kent Nagano will conduct the revival performances of Mozart’s Magic Flute at Hamburg State Opera. The Magic Flute staged by Jette Steckel was the season opening production in 2016/17.
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On Saturday, 28 April American tenor Gregory Kunde will sing Don Alvaro in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino at Semperoper Dresden’s new production and premiere, staged by Keith Warner.
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On Tuesday, 1 May the tenor will sing the title role of Verdi’s Otello at Staatstheater Wiesbaden on the occasion of the International May Festival. It will be a gala performance. Click here for more information.
On 11 May 2018, German cellist Jan Vogler will release his new CD with Sony Classical: Together with violinist Mira Wang and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian they have recorded double concertos by Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Rihm and John Harbison.
Through Jan Vogler’s initiative two renowned contemporary composers – American John Harbison and German Wolfgang Rihm – were each to compose a work for violin, violoncello and orchestra, which will now be released as world premiere recording.
Both pieces – Wolfgang Rihm’s “Duo Concerto” as well as John Harbison’s “Double Concerto” – were premiered by Jan Vogler and his wife, violinist Mira Wang in the USA.
Jan Vogler and Mira Wang about this new recording:
“Brahms’ singular master work stood alone for over a century, without notable challenge by new compositions for the same unique instrumentation. We are happy and proud to have helped to bring two beautiful and strong double concertos to life. Wolfgang Rihm’s virtuous double concerto in one movement and John Harbison‘s poetic and symphonic work are framing Brahms’ double concerto on this CD. For us it feels like a completed circle, from the first idea through the creations and premieres, to the presentation on this recording.“