Kent Nagano conducts concerts in Elbphilharmonie, together with German lyricist Ulla Hahn (February 2018)

Together with German lyricist Ulla Hahn, Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg will perform Franz Schubert’s incidental music of Rosamunde on 4 and 5 February, with texts written by Ulla Hahn specifically for this production and herself as narrator during these concerts. These performances will mark the world premiere of this project.

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Grammy Award goes to Manfred Honeck and PSO (January 2018)

The latest CD by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Barber’s Adagio (Reference Recordings) has won two Grammy Awards 2018: the Grammy for “Best Orchestra Performance” as well as for “Best engineered classical album”.

Find more information on this on the Grammy’s website.

Kent Nagano conducts revival performances of Stilles Meer and Lulu (January 2018)

Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, will conduct the revival performances of Alban Berg’s Lulu and of Tosho Hosokawa’s Stilles Meer.

In 2016 (Stilles Meer) and 2017 (Lulu) Nagano premiered both new productions.

The performance dates this season are the following:

Lulu:

27, 30, January, 3, 8 February

Stilles Meer:

31 January, 2, 7 February

 

Find further information on the webpage of the Hamburg State Opera.

Debut CD Francisco Fullana: Release Recital in New York (January 2018)

On 17 March 2018 the debut CD “Through the lens of time“ by violinist Francisco Fullana will be presented in the Rose Studio in Lincoln Centre, New York, on the occasion of its release in March 2018 by Orchid Classics.

At the recital Francisco Fullana will perform together with the renowned Metropolis Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr.

Find more information on the event here.

 

Radio broadcast: Jan Vogler & Manfred Honeck together in concert (January 2018)

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 21:05 the concert with cellist Jan Vogler, conductor Manfred Honeck and Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin (from 10 January 2018) at Berlin Philharmonie will be broadcast at Deutschlandfunk.

Among others, the world premiere of Daj Fujikura’s cello concerto was on the program.

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Gregory Kunde as Peter Grimes in Valencia (January 2018)

American tenor Gregory Kunde is currently rehearsing Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. He performs the title role. The revival performance will take place on 1 February. Further performances are on 4, 7, 10 and 13 February.

Find here more information about this production.

Gregory Kunde as Peter Grimes in Valencia.
(c) Miguel Lorenzo / Mikel Ponce

 

 

Manfred Honeck | ICMA „Artist of the Year“ 2018 (January 2018)

Conductor and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck has been awarded the International Classical Music Award 2018 “Artist of the Year“. This has been officially announced today, 18 January 2018 by the ICMA.

Manfred Honeck: “It is a great honour for me to receive this prestigious award from leading international music journalists. I am very grateful that my work is being appreciated and distinguished in this particular way.”

Find here more information about the ICMA 2018.

The orchestra and its Music Director have released three SACDs with the audiophile label Reference Recordings in the years 2016 and 2017: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 & Barber’s Adagio (2017), Richard Strauss‘ Suites (2016) as well as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 & Dvorak’s Rusalka Suite (2016).

Find here a detailed list of all SACDs that have so far been released by the PSO, Manfred Honeck and Reference Recordings.

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