On 19 and 20 February Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut with Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester in Stockholm with works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
Pianist Jonathan Biss will be soloist of these concerts and play Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 1.
Find here more information.
On 11, 12 and 14 February Omer Meir Wellber will be guest at the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig. Works by Strauss, Mendelssohn and Schubert will be performed, next to Beethoven’s piano concerto No. 4 with pianist Nelson Freire.
After his successful debut at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in April 2015 Omer Meir Wellber is now again invited.
Find here more details.
Violinist Midori and conductor Omer Meir Wellber will go on tour together with Filarmonico del Teatro La Fenice from 8 until 11 January 2016.
They will perform in Venice, Baden-Baden, Dortmund and Eindhoven.
Dates and programmes are the following:
8 January
Venedig, Teatro La Fenice
Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
9 January
Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus
Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 D major op. 73
10 January
Dortmund, Konzerthaus
s. 9 January
11 January
Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw Frits Philips
Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 c minor op. 67
From 16 – 25 January cellist Jan Vogler and Pianist Martin Stadtfeld will tour together through Germany. Together they will present works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn:
Bach: Sonata c major BWV 1028
Beethoven: Variations from Judas Maccabäus g major WoO 45
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 d major op. 58
Beethoven: Sonata a-major op. 69
The dates are the following:
16 January 11 am, Schloss Elmau
17 January 6 pm, Aalen, Stadthalle
20 January 8 pm, Nienburg, Giebelsaal, Albert Schweitzer-Schule
22 January 8 pm, Osnabrück, OsnabrückHalle, Europa-Saal
23 January 8 pm, Bremen, Glocke, Großer Saal
24 January 8 pm, Ahrensburg, Eduard-Söring-Saal
25 January 8 pm, Braunschweig, Stadthalle
Both musicians have been duo partners for many years and have recorded a CD with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas for gambas in 2000 (Sony).
On 3 December at 8 pm (GMT) British radio channel classic.fm broadcasts a concert of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted Manfred Honeck, that was played in Heinz Hall / Pittsburgh in September 2015.
Find here the link with the announcement of the concert. For interested listeners outside the UK we recommend a mobile app with international radio channels.
The SACD of Symphony No. 4 by Anton Bruckner, recorded by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck has received a Grammy nomination (published in February 2015 at Reference Recordings). The award ceremony will take place on 15 February 2016.
This release is the third in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on the FRESH! label by Reference Recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.Find here the list of nominations and at No. 74 “Best orchestral performance”.
Finden Sie hier die Liste der Nominierungen und unter Punkt 74 “Best orchestral Performance”.
On 10 December at 6.15 pm (CET) a 30 minute portrait will be broadcast about Kent Nagano in North German NDR TV.
The film is about Kent Nagano’s start as General Music Director at the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg since September 2015.
Watch the film live on NDR live-Stream.
After broadcasting the film can still be seen in the media gallery.
On Sunday, 13 December 2015 the production “La Forza del Destino” celebrates its Premiere in Teatro Filarmonico di Verona.
At the rostrum of Filarmonico di Verona will be conductor Omer Meir Wellber. The production is staged by Pier Francesco Maestrini.
Further performances are on 15, 17, 20 and 22 December 2015. Please find here more information on the production.
Listen to Manfred Honeck from 23 until 27 November each morning from 9-10 am (GMT) at “Essential Classics” with Rob Cowan and Ian Renkin at BBC Radio 3.
Honeck talks about various recordings (Reference Recordings) he did with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, whose Music Director he is.
Kent Nagano, Artistic Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of Göteborgs Symfoniker, is touring with the orchestra from 7 until 10 November 2015 in Germany. Soloists of the concerts in Stuttgart, Freiburg, Munich and Cologne will be pianist Kit Armstrong and violinist Arabella Steinbacher.
The programs are the following:
7 November
Stuttgart, Liederhalle
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Kit Armstrong – Piano
8 November
Freiburg, Konzerthaus
s. 7 November
9. November
Munich, Philharmonie am Gasteig
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sibelius: Finlandia
Mendelssohn: Violin Concert e minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Arabella Steinbacher – Violin
10 November
Cologne, Philharmonie
Göteborgs Symfonikers
s. 9 November