Midori & Friends celebrated its 25th anniversary with a Dinner and Concert on Monday May 15th at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The evening included performances by Emanuel Ax, Heather Headley and Midori.
In August / September 2017 the PSO will go on Europe tour with Music Director Manfred Honeck.
From 28 August until 8 September 2017 they give concerts together with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter and Baritone Matthias Goerne, e.g. at Salzburg Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival or Luzerne Festival. Rainer Honeck, concert master of Vienna Philharmonics and brother to Manfred Honeck will be soloist of the concert on 1 September at Grafenegg Festival.
The tour will lead the orchestra to Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Romania and Switzerland.
It will be the 7. Europe tour of the PSO together with Manfred Honeck.
Find here the tour dates at a glance.
On the occasion of Herbert Blomstedt’s 90. birthday in 2017 the label Accentus Music publishes all nine symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven played by Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig and conducted by Herbert Blomstedt in a CD box plus selected symphonies on DVD.
Accentus Music has now created trailers to announce the DVDs. Click on the the links below to watch the trailers on YouTube:
On Sunday, 23 April 2017, an artist talk with conductor Omer Meir Wellber will take place in the Societätstheater in Dresden. Journalist Michael Ernst will present the event and lead through the discussion.
The conductor will mostly talk about his new book “Fear, risk and love – Moments with Mozart”, which was published in February 2017 at Austrian Ecowin publishing house. Co author Inge Kloepfer will also be present. The talk will be followed by a signing.
Find more information on the event here.
Omer Meir Wellber is currently conducting at the Semperoper Dresden on the occasion of the Mozart-Tage. Click here for further information.
From 18 – 30 July 2017 this year’s Herrenchiemsee Festival will take place.
“Paths of discoveries, into a future of the new, through change and revolution, but also diversity and unity. The Baroque world – the time of a new beginning!”
Conductor and festival director Enoch zu Guttenberg will open the festival on Baroque paths at Kloster Frauenchiemsee, where on the 18 and 19 of July he will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion, together with the KlangVerwaltung orchestra and the Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern.
But it is not only Baroque works that the festival is going to offer. The Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Schuldt, will present works by Haydn, Liszt and Britten. Additionally, the pianist Gerhard Oppitz plays a program with works by Grieg, Franck, Brahms etc., and Enoch zu Guttenberg will conduct Mozart’s Great Mass in c minor next to Bach’s Magnificat.
As every year, the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele will take place in the king’s castle on the Herreninsel as well as in the Monastery of the island Frauenchiemsee, both in the middle of the Chiemsee, 70 km southeast of Munich, and with beautiful views of the Chiemgau Alps. You will again experience the ferry crossing to the islands, the coachride to the castle, the traditional alphorn players during the concert intermissions on the yard of the castle, and the nocturnal return to shore by ferry.
Find this year’s program here.
The 4th video of the blog’s series “Annas Maske auf der Spur” (‘On the Scent of Anna’s Mask’) travels with Hefti through time and space – visiting places of his youth that led him towards becoming a composer. You can watch the video here (in German).
Today this year’s opera piccola at the Hamburg State Opera “Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht” will be premiered, staged by opera director Georges Delnon. Music Director of the new production will be General Music Director Kent Nagano. The piece for adolescents is based on Mozart’s opera “Magic Flute”.
Further performances will be on 22, 23, 25, 27, 30 April as well as on 3, 6 and 7 May.
Find here more information on the new production.
Herbert Blomstedt, who will celebrate his 90. birthday in July 2017, is currently guest in Norway and Finland.
On 6 and 7 April he will conduct St. John Passion by Bach at Konserthus Oslo. The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra will play the oratorio.
On 12 and 13 April Herbert Blomstedt will conduct the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Sibelius’ Symphony No.4 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 will be performed in Musiikkitalo in Helsinki.
Find more information on both concerts in Oslo and Helsinki by clicking on the city names.
The CD New Worlds will combine US literature by Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and Fenimore Cooper with works by Bach, Schubert, Piazzolla and Gershwin.
Next to cellist Jan Vogler and Bill Murray, who will sing and recite the texts, violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez will take part in the project. As Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends they will premiere the program on 4 June 2017 at Dresden Music Festival. From July 2017 they will tour through North America et al in New York Carnegie Hall.
On 15 April 2017 at 19.05 (CEST) the oratorio “Arche” by German composer Jörg Widmann will be broadcast on BR Klassik.
The piece celebrated its world premiere on 13 January 2017 on the occasion of the opening festivities of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. It was performed by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano.
Find more information here.