From 12 – 24 July the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele 2016 will take place on Herreninsel and Fraueninsel in lake Chiemsee.
Artistic Director and Conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg will also celebrate a very special birthday right after the festival. He will turn 70 on 29 July.
Enoch zu Guttenberg will conduct both the Dvorak Requiem on 16 July and the Brahms Requiem as this year’s final concert on 24 July.
On Sunday, 24 July, the classical-music festivals Kissinger Sommer, Herrenchiemsee Festspiele and Audi-Vorsprung-Festival by Kent Nagano came to their end.
At Kissinger Sommer Kari Kahl-Wolfsjäger gave her farewell after 30 years of directorship. Conductor and Artistic Director Enoch zu Guttenberg will celebrate his 70. birthday shortly after the end of his Herrenchiemsee Festival and the Vorsprung-Festival as part of AUDI Sommerkonzerte finished its final year after three scheduled years of existance.
Read here about all three festivals:
From 16 -24 July Kent Nagano presents this year’s Vorsprung Festival as part of “Audi Sommerkonzerte”.
It is the last planned edition of Vorsprung Festival that was introduced by Artistic Director Kent Nagano in 2014.
This year a concertant “Idomeneo” et al with Christoph and Julian Prégardien and Concerto Köln will be presented.
Find here information on the program.
On 3 July Kent Nagano concludes his first season as General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera with the world premiere of Turangalîla, a ballett by John Neumeier and the symphony by Olivier Messiaen of the same name. This production is the first collaboration of Kent Nagano and John Neumeier.
Further performances are on 5 and 8 July 2016.
Find here more information.
Vom 5 May unti 5 Jun 2016 this year’s Dresdner Musikfestspiele took place under the artistic direction of Jan Vogler.
The cellist himself framed the festival by his performance at the opening concert on 6 May with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons and also by the final concert with the Festival Orchestra and conductor Ivor Bolton on 5 June. In Semperoper Dresden he played Schumann’s cello concerto.
The press says about the final concert:
Vogler, who has made a tremendous job as festival director focussed on expressivity and attack without any compromise. He stormed playfully up the burning hill: Jan, the Cello Husar – who would have thought? The rest is anticipation – again in 2017.” (Sächsische Zeitung, 6 June 2016)
The concert in Semperoper Dresden can be streamed at Arte.concert. Please click here.
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists in July and August 2016 at a glance.
You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website.
Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de.
Tomorrow, on Friday, 20 May, the tour start of the big Europe tour of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck will take place in Kuppelsaal in Hannover, Germany.
The orchestra will play 14 concerts in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. Soloists will be percussionist Martin Grubinger, pianist Daniil Trifonov and the violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Anne-Sophie Mutter.
The concert on 22 May 2016 at 8 pm in Berlin Philharmonie will be presented as a worldwide livestream by Medici.tv, facilitated by Berlin Phil Media GmbH.
Find here the link to the livestream.
On 5 May, this year’s Dresdner Musikfestspiele started in Saxony. “Time” is the festival motto in 2016.
As a kick-off Jan Vogler, Director of the festival, played together with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons on 6 May in the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei” for Cello and Orchestra was performed.
Please find more information about the festival here.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra releases its new CD with Tchaikovsky’s 6th symphony and Dvořák’s Rusalka fantasy (Arr. Honeck / Ille) on 13 May 2016 by Reference Recordings. This release is the fifth in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on the FRESH! label by Reference Recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.
Tchaikovsky says about the symphony: „I absolutely consider it to be the best, and in particular, the most sincere of all my creations.“
Manfred Honeck writes in his booklet notes: „It is undoubtedly clear that Tchaikovsky truly put all of his soul into this unique masterpiece. I dare to say that in a way, Tchaikovsky experienced his own death through the music. One can be sure that only somebody who is deeply empathetic about both life and death can be capable of creating such an atmosphere and I am deeply grateful for the great musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra who went with me on this journey, requiring the utmost technical perfection to reach such a level of expression.“
The album also includes the world premiere of the Rusalka Fantasy, an orchestral suite drawn from Dvořák’s opera by Mr. Honeck and arranger Tomáš Ille.
Cellist Jan Vogler will play in the Dresdner Schauspielhaus together with the Dresdner Philharmonie on 28 and 29 April 2016.
Jan Vogler will play the concert for violoncello No.1 g minor by Dmitri Kabalevsky.
Juanjo Mena will conduct the concert.
Find more information about the two concert nights here.