Finale der Deutschsprachigen Debattiermeisterschaft 2024

Der Herr der Ringe & der Hobbit – The concert

Peter Jackson’s world-famous film celebrates its 20th anniversary! The music of the hobbits and orcs comes to the concert hall stage in an impressive concert experience with soloists, choir and orchestra. The menacing sounds of Mordor and the Black Riders, the beautiful lyrical melodies of the Elves – the renowned Cinema Festival Symphonics transform reality into a musical setting of Middle-earth. Howard Shore composed much of the music for the film trilogies »The Lord of the Rings« and »The Hobbit« and received the Oscar, Grammys and the Golden Globe for it. His motifs are elementally touching when the ring unfolds its power and corrupts the bearer of all power: a parable with great contemporary relevance. Accompanied by violins, trumpets and timpani, the ensemble, soloists and choir whisk the audience away to the Shire, through the landscape of Rohan and up to Mount Doom. The melodic tones of flutes and violins are supported by green landscapes and gloomy scenarios on the screen in the background. Animations specially developed for the production add an extra dimension to this symphonic event. »The last Goodbye« and »Far over the Misty Mountains cold« are performed by soloists with powerful voices who add a personal touch to the well-known songs. »The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit – The Concert« is a fantastic evening of a very special kind. Full of sound, full of atmosphere, unique! With state-of-the-art technology, the Cinema Festival Symphonics will take Middle-earth fans and fantasy lovers on a musical journey through all of The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit films. The impressive light and screen animations flow harmoniously with the legendary melodies and enhance the atmosphere of each individual song. The ensemble celebrates a unique sound that fully immerses the audience in the world of fantasy and provides many goosebump moments!

Konzert der Tenöre

Under the sonorous title »The Concert of the Tenors«, the Hamburger Konzertchor, together with international soloists, present the most beautiful arias, choral works and canzones from popular operas and operettas. The programme also features other works by great composers such as Georges Bizet, Richard Wagner, Gaetano Donizetti and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Geschichten aus der Geschichte

The podcast »Geschichten aus der Geschichte« is celebrating ten years with a very special anniversary tour across German-speaking countries. For almost a decade, Richard and Daniel have been broadcasting fascinating and mostly little-known stories from history directly into the ears of their listeners every week – entertaining, informative and often with a twinkle in their eye. On the 2025 anniversary tour, they invite the audience to experience this journey live. There will be anecdotes, exciting stories and perhaps a surprise or two. Experience history as you’ve never heard it before – live, in person and with a good dose of fun.

Die drei ??? und der Phantomsee

Oliver Rohrbeck, narrator of the »Die drei ???« detective Justus Jonas, and the iconic foley artist Jörg Klinkenberg are touring Germany with a interactive event. Together, they will take the audience on a journey back to the beginnings of the three detectives’ exciting investigations. Together with up to eight fans, they create a unique live radio play on stage. Live noises, hand-picked music and a detailed sound design provide the right soundscape and show the audience live what otherwise remains hidden behind the walls of the radio play studios.

Herbstkonzert 2024

Musical works of Emilie Mayer, Joseph Haydn, Clara Schumann, Antonín Dvořák

Finale with the RSPO Orchestra Academy

Since 2016, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has hosted an ”Orchestra Academy”. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year, advanced academic programme for young musicians. Under the guidance of the section leaders from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piteå School of Music, the musicians receive intensive training individually, in chamber music, and orchestral playing.They also showcase their talents through a series of public chamber music concerts – such as this one featuring this year’s academy musicians.

NOSPR / Alsop / Season finale. A Titan

It is rare for “first” symphonies to be created in a spontaneous rapture of inspiration. The creative process may last more than a dozen years. Sometimes it is only the “second” that becomes the “first”, and at other times it only takes its final shape after emerging from a formal ambiguity. The one to blame for all this is the author of the “Eroica”, who set the bar so high that it is difficult for his successors to get rid of the Beethovenian complex.Grażyna Bacewicz had already composed her “first” Symphony No. 1 before the war. Nonetheless, dissatisfied with the result, she “renounced” that child of hers and did not enter it into the official catalogue of works. She returned to the symphonic form in 1945, creating a four-movement neoclassical work marked by the wartime trauma. It was this symphony that she eventually gave the official number one. In spite of the fact that the work was performed by a Cracow symphony, however, she decided against publishing it.Mahler was twenty-eight years old when he finished the Symphony No. 1 and titled it Titan, thus referencing a novel by Jean Paul, a prophet of Romantic literature. Seeking a form capable of accommodating all the compositional ideas which crowded his mind, he must have experienced much more quandaries than the Polish composer did. He spent a long time adjusting the form and defining the genre for his Symphony No. 1. He hesitated between various shades and incarnations of the wide-spanning form of tone poem, alternately adding and removing the literary programme.The piece, which Mahler presented for the first time in Budapest on 20th November 1889, was introduced as A tone poem in two parts, the first part encompassing three movements of the cycle, and the second one encompassing two of them. Mahler lent them a full spectrum of emotional shades – from subjective and philosophical ones, to grotesque folklore. He initially gave each movement a programme title, only to remove those later. Thus, as a symphonist, he took the side of absolute music. After reducing the cycle to four movements, he defined his piece as Titan, a tone poem in symphonic form, in order to eventually announce, to himself and to the world, what a symphony is, and to redefine the term.Andrzej SułekConcert duration (intermission included): approximately 100 minutes

Finale des Bach-Wettbewerbs Leipzig 2025

Leipziger Weihnachtssingen 2024

Höhner Classic 2024