Fola Dada feat. Joo Kraus & Daniel Stelter

Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus celebrates his 85th birthday in 2024! With his major and very successful tour in 2023, the »eternally young« and exceptional artist already said goodbye to touring life in the spring of 2023. But the passion for music, stage air and closeness to the audience remains. A thoroughbred musician like Peter Kraus lives and loves and needs the stage. And so the superstar of the wild 50s and 60s is »gifting« himself and all his fans a series of concerts in selected concert halls for this special anniversary. Peter Kraus’s »Rockin’ 85!« promises to be a rousing »limited edition« in the truest sense of the tour title!

Sosa / Kraus / Piñera »Vibe Factor« & Daniel Erdmann’s »Thérapie de Couple«

»Vibe Factor« – three award-winning musicians who set off a fireworks display of modern beats and South American polyrhythmics. In the course of his career, Uruguayan percussionist Diego Piñera has accumulated an enormous body of musical knowledge. He studied in Havanna and at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and he now teaches himself in Germany. With his insatiable thirst for new sounds, he is the perfect partner for pianist Omar Sosa, one of the innovators of Afro-Cuban music and another much-travelled artist who now lives in Europe. Piñera and Sosa share a love of salsa, soul, classical music and hip-hop. German trumpeter Joo Kraus has already been on tour with Sosa several times, and completes this dynamic trio. After the interval, the German-French ensemble »Thérapie de Couple« can be heard. »In couples therapy, the relationship we are talking about is of course the relationship between Germany and France. The engine that drives Europe has a marital crisis from time to time.« Daniel Erdmann has lots of experience with this particular relationship: he has been travelling to and fro between the two countries for over 20 years, and is equally successful in both. Erdmann’s project Therapie de Couple« unites six highly individual musicians from Germany and France. In the wide territory that lies between composition and improvisation, they explore the spectrum of feelings and actions that swim to the surface in the »therapeutic« process: moments of tranquillity alternate with new departures, while beauty and harmony alternate with the intense struggle for freedom. This exceptional project had its successful premiere at »jazzahead!« 2023, and it can now be heard in the Rolf Liebermann Studio. Daniel Erdmann has a long-standing connection with the NDR jazz concerts: »This is somewhere where you feel really accepted as a musician, as if you had been involved for ages. That makes you want to ›give something in return‹ in musical form.

Sosa / Kraus / Piñera »Vibe Factor« & Daniel Erdmann’s »Thérapie de Couple«

»Vibe Factor« – three award-winning musicians who set off a fireworks display of modern beats and South American polyrhythmics. In the course of his career, Uruguayan percussionist Diego Piñera has accumulated an enormous body of musical knowledge. He studied in Havanna and at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and he now teaches himself in Germany. With his insatiable thirst for new sounds, he is the perfect partner for pianist Omar Sosa, one of the innovators of Afro-Cuban music and another much-travelled artist who now lives in Europe. Piñera and Sosa share a love of salsa, soul, classical music and hip-hop. German trumpeter Joo Kraus has already been on tour with Sosa several times, and completes this dynamic trio. After the interval, the German-French ensemble »Thérapie de Couple« can be heard. »In couples therapy, the relationship we are talking about is of course the relationship between Germany and France. The engine that drives Europe has a marital crisis from time to time.« Daniel Erdmann has lots of experience with this particular relationship: he has been travelling to and fro between the two countries for over 20 years, and is equally successful in both. Erdmann’s project Therapie de Couple« unites six highly individual musicians from Germany and France. In the wide territory that lies between composition and improvisation, they explore the spectrum of feelings and actions that swim to the surface in the »therapeutic« process: moments of tranquillity alternate with new departures, while beauty and harmony alternate with the intense struggle for freedom. This exceptional project had its successful premiere at »jazzahead!« 2023, and it can now be heard in the Rolf Liebermann Studio. Daniel Erdmann has a long-standing connection with the NDR jazz concerts: »This is somewhere where you feel really accepted as a musician, as if you had been involved for ages. That makes you want to ›give something in return‹ in musical form.

Xatar feat. heavytones

Two pop-cultural icons come together here: With their joint live programme »Das Letzte Mahl«, Xatar and heavytones break down genre boundaries and mix trademark soul/funk/jazz sound with hard rap from the street. When explosive brass sections, driving percussion, funky guitars and vintage keyboard pads meet gangster rap with ruthless lyrics, it promises nothing less than a new level of hip hop and energetic live entertainment.

Daniël Tomàs

Daniel Harding

Seven mood-paintings of uncommon sensuality and expressive power, each standing for itself like a monument. Fascinated by astrology, Gustav Holst took the planets and the qualities ascribed to them as the starting point of what he himself called his “embodiments”. But in the end the seven movements of his orchestral suite, composed between 1914 and 1916, can also be seen as general explorations of human nature. The BRSO has not played The Planets for 30 years. Now Daniel Harding is combining them with a no less vivid piece from the early 20th century: Stravinsky’s ballet score on Petrushka, the “immortal and unhappy hero of every fair in all countries”. Here we encounter a game of character types in a merry amalgam of styles that by no means shrinks from parodic exaggeration. Ever since its première in 1911 Petrushka has numbered among the composer’s most successful scores.

Daniel Harding

Seven mood-paintings of uncommon sensuality and expressive power, each standing for itself like a monument. Fascinated by astrology, Gustav Holst took the planets and the qualities ascribed to them as the starting point of what he himself called his “embodiments”. But in the end the seven movements of his orchestral suite, composed between 1914 and 1916, can also be seen as general explorations of human nature. The BRSO has not played The Planets for 30 years. Now Daniel Harding is combining them with a no less vivid piece from the early 20th century: Stravinsky’s ballet score on Petrushka, the “immortal and unhappy hero of every fair in all countries”. Here we encounter a game of character types in a merry amalgam of styles that by no means shrinks from parodic exaggeration. Ever since its première in 1911 Petrushka has numbered among the composer’s most successful scores.

Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding is a welcome guest at the helm of the BRSO. This time he will conduct a programme fully deserving of the title “from adversity to the stars”. Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel Symphony of 2020 was commissioned by several orchestras, including the BRSO. Here he takes up important passages from his like-named opera, premièred at the Salzburg Festival in 2016, and combines them into a four-movement symphony. The starting point was a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel, in which a group of high-bred socialites gather together for a party and are condemned to a nightmarish journey. Adès has supplied music at once exciting and weirdly grotesque. Following this surrealistic vision of Hell there begins a very real heaven-assailing ascent to the heights with Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony.

Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding is a welcome guest at the helm of the BRSO. This time he will conduct a programme fully deserving of the title “from adversity to the stars”. Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel Symphony of 2020 was commissioned by several orchestras, including the BRSO. Here he takes up important passages from his like-named opera, premièred at the Salzburg Festival in 2016, and combines them into a four-movement symphony. The starting point was a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel, in which a group of high-bred socialites gather together for a party and are condemned to a nightmarish journey. Adès has supplied music at once exciting and weirdly grotesque. Following this surrealistic vision of Hell there begins a very real heaven-assailing ascent to the heights with Richard Strauss’s Alpine Symphony.

Daniel Harding

Night walk with Daniel Harding: in the somber Funeral March, Gustav Mahler’s shadowy, gloomy Seventh Symphony emerges as “the psychogram of a compulsive existence” (Wolfgang Stähr). Nachtmusik I, characterized by a horn duet, casts a wistful glance into bygone times; the Scherzo acquires a restless, spooky character; and Nachtmusik II becomes a nocturnal serenade especially through the presence of a guitar and a mandolin, instruments rarely found in an orchestra. After the eerie nocturnal atmosphere of the previous movements, the work’s gigantic finale transports the listener towards the light – a change of mood that left the audience attending the work’s premiere somewhat perplexed. Today, Mahler’s Seventh is considered a masterpiece of symphonic form, as will be exemplified in Mahler specialist Daniel Harding’s performance.