Summer in Lesmona – Grand Orchestra Concert

Summer in Lesmona – Tea in Lesmona

Summer Concert with Wagner

Helena Munktell’s romantic Suite for large orchestra is a piece that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has never before performed in its entirety. The music was composed in 1895, and like the now often performed Bränningar, this suite was premiered in Monte Carlo in the late 19th century.Next, we hear the young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant tackle Wagner's Wesendonck Songs – music filled with burning longing and celestial beauty. Jessica Elevant has recently gained attention for her participation in Daniel Nelson's opera Pride and Prejudice at the Norrlandsoperan. This marks her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.Another debutant is Sergej Bolkhovets – as a conductor, that is. He has previously been a violin soloist with the orchestra. He leads the orchestra in Shostakovich's first symphony. Already in this symphony, Shostakovich demonstrates his phenomenal ability to handle the orchestra. It's personal music with humorous twists and great finesse. A remarkable symphonic debut by a 19-year-old composer.

Guest in Ingolstadt: Audi Summer Concerts

They play with technical brilliance, enjoy pushing extremes and dare to break out in ways that can sometimes push a hall's acoustics to their limits: The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, which, with its enchantingly warm and darkly glowing sound, is without doubt one of the best orchestras in Europe. Since 2004, the orchestra has organised the international "Mahler Competition" every three years - a very special conducting competition that also attracts great international attention. Winning the competition means embarking on a successful career as a conductor, which is why it will be exciting once again in mid-July 2023. Young conductors between 18 and 35 years of age from all over the world will then once again be guests in Bamberg to face worldwide competition in preliminary rounds, main round, semifinals and finals. Which of them will be crowned the next classical star of the scene is still completely open at this point. The secret will only be revealed on 15 July, when the winner conducts the grand final concert. The lucky winner can be heard the very next day in the Ingolstadt Festival Hall conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - together with star guest Thomas Hampson, who has one of the most beautiful baritone voices of our time: It is rare to find such a balanced timbre combined with such flawless vocal technique, even among the very greats of their field. Hampson, who for decades has been one of the most sought-after artists worldwide in opera, operetta, musical, oratorio and lied, devotes himself to Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs, a highly atmospheric music that sounds like fin de siècle and Viennese Jugendstil. Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony has a similar tone, even if it hints at a rather dark world view. This is already indicated by the names of the middle movements, for it was not by chance that Mahler called them "night musics": endangered idylls in which the homely and the eerie enter into an eerily beautiful combination. The evening opens with Joseph Haydn's "Oxford Symphony", music that is literally stretched to bursting point, with a dramatically charged atmosphere that has lost none of its thrilling effect to this day.

Summer in Lesmona – Bremen Friday night

Concert in Grafenegg

Concert in Lucerne

Concert in Lucerne

Concert in Amsterdam

Concert in Ghent

Concert in Luxembourg