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14. January 2014

Grammy for Hindemith recording with Midori (January 2014)

The NDR Sinfonieorchester under Christoph Eschenbach were awarded a Grammy Award 2014 in the category “Best Classical Compendium” for their recording of Hindemith’s Violin Concerto – with Violinist Midori as soloist –, the Symphonic Metamorphosis and Konzertmusik for brass and strings, Op. 50.

Midori comments: “I am delighted that Christoph Eschenbach and the NDR Symphony Orchestra invited me to play Hindemith’s Violin Concerto as part of their CD tribute to Paul Hindemith, and am very happy that last night this recording won the Grammy for Best Classical Compendium. Hindemith is one of the musicians I respect and admire the most. I hope our recording brings more awareness and appreciation of this great artist.”

The CD was published in August 2013 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Paul Hindemith’s death on the Ondine label.

11. January 2014

Midori with ICEP in Myanmar (January 2014)

Midori and three young string players selected through auditions visited schools, hospitals and camps for internally displaced persons in Myanmar in December 2013 as part of the seventh annual International Community Engagement Program.

Midori is also a United Nations Messenger of Peace and there is a United Nations blog about the Myanmar visit which mentions that, “Midori’s International Community Engagement Program aims to bring classical music to disadvantaged communities, connect these communities and the musicians, and raise awareness about the challenges poorer regions face in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.”

The three young string players who joined Midori in the Myanmar ICEP quartet, Gahyon Chow (violin), William Frampton (viola) and Michael Katz (cello), blogged about their experience. You can read their blog here.

The Myanmar ICEP quartet will reunite in June 2014 for reporting events, community engagement activities and concerts in Japan.

20. December 2013

PR² classic artists CDs nominated for major awards (December 2013)

Two PR² classic artists are nominated for a GRAMMY and an ICMA Award:

Leonidas Kavakos’ complete recording of Beethoven’s sonatas for Decca (piano: Enrico Pace) is nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Chamber Music category.
Also nominated for a GRAMMY is Midori‘s recording of Hindemith’s violin concerto with the NDR symphony orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach (Ondine), in the category Best Classical Compendium.
http://www.grammy.com/nominees?genre=5

Midori‘s Onyx-CD with sonatas by Janacek, Bloch and Schostakowitsch (Özgür Aydin, piano) was nominated for the ICMA Award 2014 in the chamber music category. The ICMA is the only international award dedicated solely to classical music. Its jury is composed of seventeen members from the international music press. Winners will be announced in early 2014. http://www.icma-info.com/

13. August 2013

Midori‘s new recordings: Hindemith‘s Violin Concerto & Violin Sonatas by Bloch, Janáček and Shostakovich (August 2013)

Violinist Midori presents two new CD projects at the end of her 30th anniversary season:

Together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Midori has recorded the rarely performed Violin Concerto by Hindemith. The CD has just been released by Ondine (August 2013).

In October 2013, Onyx publishes a recital CD with three 20th century violin sonatas played by Midori and pianist Özgür Aydin: Bloch’s seldom heard 2nd sonata Poéme mystique, Janáček’s sonata (1914-21) and Shostakovich’s late G major sonata of 1968, composed for David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter.

Writing about these sonatas Midori says: “These are three works that interweave the anxieties of the modern world condition with much hope for the future. In the end, the music fills us with a great feeling of warmth and compassion while not shying away from what must be confronted.”

In Europe, Midori will appear in the upcoming months with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Christoph Eschenbach and with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin.

A selection of Midori’s European concerts in the autumn:

11/12 October, Manchester
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
Walton: Violin concerto

27 October, Oxford, University
30 October, Moscow
Hindemith: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Major
Franck: Sonata in A major
Mozart: Sonata e minor, KV 304
Strauss: Sonata
Özgür Aydin, piano

22/23 November, Berlin, Philharmonie
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
Bartók: Violin concerto No. 2

28/29 November, Turin
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Juray Valčuha
Brahms: Violin concerto

20. July 2013

20 years Moritzburg Festival | 10-25 August 2013 (July 2013)

For the 20th anniversary issue of the Moritzburg Festival, artists such as violinist Midori, violist Nils Mönkemeyer, soprano Juliane Banse and pianists Alice Sara Ott and Kristian Bezuidenhout and many more will follow artistic director Jan Vogler’s invitation to Moritzburg near Dresden this summer. Wolfgang Rihm will be the composer-in-residence.

Please find the festival program here: http://www.moritzburgfestival.de/english/index.html

Among this year’s concert venues is a hangar of the Elbe aircraft factory Dresden, and furthermore the familiar baroque halls of the Moritzburg castle, Dresden’s Palais im Großen Garten and the famous Frauenkirche, as well as the Transparent Factory of Volkswagen. You can also visit an anniversary exhibition about 20 festival years at the Moritzburg castle.

In 2013, the Moritzburg Festival academy orchestra will be directed by Eric Jacobsen, conductor of the New York chamber orchestra The Knights, and present the gala concert with Midori on 11 August, among others.

Just in time for the festival, Sony classical will release the sixth Moritzburg Festival Ensemble CD, with Jan Vogler, pianist Hélène Grimaud et al.:

“Dichterliebe”
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe op. 48
Fantasiestücke op. 73
Hélène Grimaud – piano, Jan Vogler – cello
Andante und Variationen op. 46 for 2 pianos, 2 celli and french horn
Jan Vogler, Christian Poltéra – cello
Juho Pohjonen, Martina Filjak – piano
Johannes Dengler – french horn
SONY Classical (August 2013)

13. July 2013

Midori’s new CD – Hindemith (July 2013)

August 2013 sees the release of Midori’s recording of Hindemith’s violin concerto, which was made in summer 2012 with the NDR symphony orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach.

Later this year, her recital disc will be released on Onyx, with sonatas by Shostakovitch, Janacek and Bloch (Özgür Aydin, piano).

Midori will perform at the Moritzburg Festival’s anniversary concert on 11 August in Dresden, with Berg’s violin concerto and the Moritzburg Festival academy orchestra led by Eric Jacobsen. She will also return to the BBC Proms with a performance of Eötvös’ violin concerto DoReMi (dedicated to her) with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, and give 2 solo concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival.

20. June 2013

Herrenchiemsee Festival: Andrew Parrott, Reinhard Goebel and Salvador Mas Conde as new conductors (June 2013)

Enoch zu Guttenberg, Artistic Director of the Herrenchiemsee Festival, had to cancel his concerts at this year’s festival due to a slipped disc operation. Conductors Reinhard Goebel, Andrew Parrott and Salvador Mas Conde will step in at short notice.

The opening concert on 16 July with Bach’s cantatas will be conducted by Reinhard Goebel. Andrew Parrott conducts the performances of Händel’s Messiah arranged by Mozart on 18 and 28 July as well as the concert on 21 July with works by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Salvador Mas Conde will be on the rostrum of the KlangVerwaltung Orchestra at the concert on 27 July featuring Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 (instead of the Bruckner Symphony No. 6) and works by Bach.

Please find the full and updated programme on www.herrenchiemsee-festspiele.de.

20. March 2013

20 years Moritzburg Festival | composer-in-residence: Wolfgang Rihm (March 2013)

It was in 1993 when cellists Jan Vogler and Peter Bruns and violinst Kai Vogler founded their own yearly festival for chamber music in Moritzburg near Dresden, along the lines of the Marlboro Festival in the US. Over the years, the Moritzburg Festival has established as one of the leading international festivals of its kind and will celebrate its 20^th anniversary this summer from 10-25 August 2013 under the artistic direction of Jan Vogler.

You can find the 2013 festival program HERE.

Old and new companions, such as violinists Midori, Nicola Benedetti, Kai Vogler, violist Nils Mönkemeyer, cellist Peter Bruns, pianists Kristian Bezuidenhout, Alice Sara Ott, Antti Siirala, and soprano Juliane Banse, are following Jan Vogler’s invitation this year to rehearse and perform together in Moritzburg. Composer-in-residence of the anniversary edition will be one of the most renowned and versatile contemporaries, Wolfang Rihm.

For the 8^th time, 45 students from all over the world will form the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra and rehearse and perform chamber and orchestra works together, this year under the direction of conductor Eric Jacobsen. Among others, they will present the gala concert on 11 August with violinist Midori and Berg’s violin concerto „To the Memory of an Angel“.

The program compiles works of past festival editions and CD productions: among compositions by Wolfgang Rihm, works by Schubert, Piazzolla, Schumann, Wagner, Korngold, Messiaen, Bach and others will be presented. For the first time, one of the venues will be a hangar of the Elbe aircraft factory Dresden, and furthermore the familiar baroque halls of the Moritzburg castle, Dresden’s Palais im Großen Garten and Frauenkirche, as well as the Transparent Factory of Volkswagen.

Prior to the festival, „Moritzburg Festival on tour“ will guestperform at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 7 July.

Please also visit http://www.moritzburgfestival.de/english.

A video about the 2012 Moritzburg Festival with three composers-in-residence can be found here.

19. January 2013

Midori in Bangladesh (January 2013)

Midori has just returned from Bangladesh where she continued her project for children and young people Music Sharing. Midori and selected young musicians performed in schools, hospitals and youth facilities, including rural areas. The program aims to bring the joy and inspiration of music to those who have limited access to live music and to promote international cultural exchanges. In recent years the program has been to Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Mongolia.

20. December 2012

Herrenchiemsee Festspiele announce programme 2013 (December 2012)

The Herrenchiemsee Festival has announced its programme for 2013. Under the motto ‘Baroque Fantasies’ the programme features the radiant courtly music of Versailles as well as some acts of homage to the Baroque by later generations. From 16 to 28 July 2013 you can hear some great and pioneering manifestations of Baroque music: German church cantatas, Corelli’s church sonatas and Bach’s concertos but also Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s oratorio ‘The Messiah’ or Mendelssohn’s ‘Lobgesang’.

16 July, 7.00 p.m. God the Lord is Sun and Shield
Münster Frauenchiemsee
Bach: Four cantatas on the Word of God
‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild’ BWV 79
‘Meine Seele rühmt und preist’ BWV 189
‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’ BWV 51
‘Die Himmel erzählen’ BWV 76
Miriam Meyer – soprano, Olivia Vermeulen – contralto,
Daniel Johannsen – tenor, Klaus Mertens – bass
Chamber choir and orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Conductor: Enoch zu Guttenberg

17 July, 7.00 p.m. Sonate da Chiesa
Münster Frauenchiemsee
Albinoni: Sonata da Chiesa for violin solo and continuo op. 4, no. 4 in G minor
Corelli: Sonata da Chiesa for strings and continuo op. 3, no. 12 in A major
Pergolesi: ‘Laudate Pueri’ for soprano, choir and orchestra
Haydn: ‘Lamentatione’ – Symphony no. 26 in D minor for Holy Week
Haydn: ‘Ave Regina’ for soprano, choir and orchestra
Mozart: Church sonata in C major, KV 329
Mozart: ‘Exsultate, jubilate’ for soprano and orchestra
Sibylla Rubens – soprano
Chamber choir of the KlangVerwaltung
Alexander Janiczek and his chamber orchestra

18 July, 7.00 p.m. Mozart’s Messiah
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Handel: The Messiak arranged by W. A. Mozart KV 572
Susanne Ellen Kirchesch – soprano, Olivia Vermeulen – contralto,
Daniel Johannsen – tenor, Jochen Kupfer – bass
Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern – Orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Conductor: Enoch zu Guttenberg

19 July, 7.00 Uhr Ariadne auf Naxos
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos op. 60 (semi-staged)
Director: Ljubka Biagioni

20 July, 7.00 p.m. Ariadne auf Naxos
See 19 July

21 July, 7.00 p.m. Song of Praise
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Mendelssohn: Magnificat for soloists, choir and orchestra
Mendelssohn: Symphony no.. 2 in B-flat major op. 52 ‘Song of Praise’
Susanne Bernhard – soprano 1, Katharina Persicke – soprano 2
Olivia Vermeulen – alto, Jörg Dürmüller – tenor, Klaus Mertens – bass
Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern – Orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Conductor: Enoch zu Guttenberg

22 July, 7.00 p.m. Der Wollust Irrebahn
Unvollendetes Treppenhaus Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Poems of the Late Baroque and harpsichord works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Gerd Anthoff – speaker
Olga Watts – harpsichord

23 July, 7.00 p.m. The Music of Versailles
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
French courtly compositions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with works by André Campra, Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin and Marin Marais
Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons
Conductor: Skip Sempé

24 July, 7.00 p.m. To the Memory of an Angel
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Bach/Anton Webern: Ricercar from ‘A Musical Offering’”
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto in D major op. 61 ‘To the Memory of an Angel’
Bach/Bernhard Jestl: Chorale prelude ‘Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist’ BWV 671
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
NN-Violins
Münchener Kammerorchester
Conductor: Alexander Liebreich

25 July, 7.00 p.m. Reformation Symphony
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Bach: Violin Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 (reconstruction)
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5 in D minor op. 107 ‘Reformation Symphony’
Orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Violin and conductor: Thomas Zehetmair

26 July, 7.00 p.m. The Glory of the Voice
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Baroque bravura arias and overtures by G. F. Händel, A. Steffani and G. B. Bononcini
Lawrence Zazzo – countertenor
Hofkapelle München
Conductor: Rüdiger Lotter

27 July, 7.00 p.m. Baroque Traces
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Bach: Suite no. 3 in D major BWV 1068
Bach: Double Concerto in D minor BWV 1043
Bruckner: Symphony no. 6
Orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Conductor: Enoch zu Guttenberg

28 July, 7.00 p.m. Mozart’s Messiah
Spiegelsaal Schloss Herrenchiemsee
Handel: The Messiah arranged by W. A. Mozart KV 572
Susanne Ellen Kirchesch – soprano, Olivia Vermeulen – contralto,
Daniel Johannsen – tenor, Jochen Kupfer – bass
Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern – Orchestra of the KlangVerwaltung
Conductor: Enoch zu Guttenberg

Please visit www.herrenchiemsee-festpiele.de for more information.

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