Tonight 23 April 2015 the concert of Kent Nagano and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich will be broadcasted live on SRF 2 at 7.30 pm.
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On the program are:
Georg Friedrich Haas: Concerto Grosso Nr. 1 for 4 Alphorns and Orchestra (2014)
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 A-Major
Intendant of the Dresden Music Festival, Jan Vogler, has extended his contract by five years until 2021. The festival was founded in 1978 and he became director in 2009.
Under his directorship, the Dresden Music Festival has moved to the forefront of leading international festivals.
‘It is a very good sign that Jan Vogler has extended his partnership with Dresden,’ said an evidently pleased Dirk Hilbert, First Mayor of the City of Dresden. ‘You can certainly sense in the city that the music festival has gained in stature since he took to the reins, without having lost any connection to the cities inhabitants. At the same time, the international resonance has increased year on year. Particularly in respect to Dresden’s application as European Capital of Culture, Jan Vogler is an invaluable partner and tireless campaigner for this city.’
The Festival presents itself as an ambassador for the cultural and musical city of Dresden worldwide with its range of themes which change from year to year. It guarantees music of the utmost caliber and offers a stage to all leading international orchestras and conductors as well as artists of international acclaim and ambitious projects to promote young talent. With Jan Vogler’s guidance, the Festival has experienced rapid growth. Between 2009 and 2014, ticket revenues have more than doubled. The development of visitor numbers has also experienced a fantastic surge with the percentage of seats sold increasing from 77 to 94% and a boost in international visitors from 6 to 13%. Additionally, the Festival has been able to acquire renowned sponsors with funds from sponsors having more than trebled. Around 90 media representatives report annually on the Festival, of whom half come from outside Germany.
‘I’m delighted by the reciprocated trust of my colleagues and very much look forward to five more active and motivated years with them. I see it as my mission to open up Dresden further through cultural exchange. It is our vision to sustainably strengthen Dresden’s activities as a cosmopolitan, diverse and dynamic city of culture through the growing appeal of the Dresden Music Festival and to firmly anchor the Festival as one of the first events of choice within the international festival circuit,’ Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden Music Festival.
Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber was guest at BBC Radio 3 In Tune on 15 April on the occasion of this London Debut with the London Philhamonic Orchestra.
Wellber conducted the LPO on Friday, 17 April in the Royal Festival Hall with works by Debussy and Brahms. In addition to that Augustin Hadelich played Lalo’s “Symphony espagnole for Violin and Orchestra”.
Omer Meir Wellber will have his Gewandhaus Debut on 22, 23 and 24 April. On the program will be works by Dutilleux, Haydn und Schubert. Soloist will be Cellist Truls Mørk.
On short notice Omer Meir Wellber replaces David Zinman who had to cancel due to illness.
There will be a concert recording by German radio channel MDR with a delayed broadcast on 28 April at 8.05 pm on MDR Figaro.
Please find here the concert program at a glance:
22 April
Leipzig, Gewandhaus
Gewandhausorchester
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain
Truls Mørk – Violoncello
Steffen Schleiermacher – Moderator
23, 24 April
Leipzig, Gewandhaus
Gewandhausorchester
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain
Haydn: Symphonie e-Moll “Trauer-Sinfonie”
Schubert: Symphonie Nr. 4
Truls Mørk – Violoncello
Kent Nagano will be live on television in ZDF Morgenmagazin on 17 April from ca. 8.30 am.
The BBC interview with Kent Nagano, which was conducted in January 2015 on the occasion of his concert with BBC Symphony Orchestra, is now available for streaming on BBC Radio 3 Music Matters.
Kent Nagano talks about the influences of his musical education, about his associations with composers like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen and also about his views on New Music and its importance for the future of classical music in general.
Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber makes his London debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 17 April 2015 at 7.30 pm with works by Debussy, Lalo and Brahms.
Wellber’s first collaboration with the LPO was in May 2014 when he conducted Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin in Glyndebourne, after which the LPO invited him to conduct his London debut in April 2015.
For the 22nd time, established and young musicians will meet again in summer 2015 to rehearse and perform chamber music together in a variety of venues – the Baroque Moritzburg castle, the Transparent Factory of Volkswagen in Dresden as well as a hangar of the Elbe aircraft factory Dresden.
This year, artistic director and cellist Jan Vogler puts special emphasis on the issue of tolerance – not only in the light of the Dresden „Pegida“ demonstrations during the last months, but also of his call for defense of the humanist heritage from last autumn.
Matthias Pintscher, one of today’s most renowned composers, will be the 2015 composer-in-residence; three of his works – one of them a world premiere – will be performed during the festival. Furthermore, musicians such as violinists Henning Kraggerud and Mira Wang, violist Lawrence Power, cellist Johannes Moser, pianists Lise de la Salle and Francesco Piemontesi, or horn player Felix Klieser will follow the invitation to the Saxon idyll.
For the 10th time this year, 37 music students from around the world will form the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra to rehearse and perform orchestral works and chamber music – this year under the direction of Milan Turković. Among the festival opening concert, they will be present at the Young Euro Classic festival in the Berlin Konzerthaus on 17 August.
One musical focus of this year’s festival program (www.moritzburgfestival.de/english/index.html) will be on the groundbreaking impact Ludwig van Beethoven had on chamber music evolution in the 19th century. Beethoven was a great admirer of the ideals of the French Revolution, and by developing a new freedom in his music, he became a key pioneer of romanticism in Central Europe.
You can download the programm as a pdf HERE.
Together with Kent Nagano, the Audi Youth Choir Academy and the Munich Opera Horns, label Farao has published a new CD.For Kent Nagano supporting the young musical talents is a very personal affair of the heart. “The Audi Youth Choir Academy is an investition into the future”, Nagano states. “The young musicians have a wonderful passion for music, pretty voices and are willing to make music together earnestly and properly.”
As part of the first Vorsprung Festival, carried out in 2014 under Kent Nagano’s leadership, the concerts with the Audi Youth Choir Academy together with leading international orchestras took place.
Tracklist:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor mit Begleitung von zwei Hörnern und Harfe, op. 17
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Jagdlieder – Fünf Gesänge für vierstimmigen Männerchor und vier Hörner, op. 137
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Nachtgesang im Walde für vier Männerstimmen und vier Hörner, D 913
Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971): Unterschale – Vier russische Bauernlieder für Frauenchor mit Begleitung von vier Hörnern
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Parsifal, III. Akt „Karfreitagszauber“ – Arr. Franz Kanefzky
Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Rosenkavalier-Suite – Arr. Franz Kanefzky
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck presents its new SACD: Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. The recording will be published on 10 February 2015 by Reference Recordings in the version of 1878/80.
Manfred Honeck who has been Music Director in Pittsburgh since the 2008/2009 season writes about the recording: “For me, it was essential to adjust the Bruckner sound to match the character and nature of the ‘Romantic’ music, seeking a variety of colors ranging from the enormity of the sound blocks to also unbelievably soft and lyric playing.”
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