Klavier-Recital

Klavier-Romantik

Chamber music by an overlooked Hungarian composer, Ernő Dohnányi, whose romantic style contrasted with contemporaries Bartók and Kodály. His inventive Piano Quintet and Sextet, alongside Carl Reinecke's uniquely scored Trio, are discoveries. Dohnányi, a celebrated pianist and conductor, composed with a Brahmsian influence, though his later Sextet expands beyond, reflecting the broad stylistic landscape of the 1930s. Concert duration: ~110 minutes (including intermission).

Gewandhausorchester, Omer Meir Wellber Dirigent/Klavier

Omer Meir Wellber is a dynamic conductor, musician, and composer who enjoys experimenting and avoids the ordinary. This concert features Glasunov's "The Seasons" ballet cycle, Mahler's Piano Quartet Scherzo (arranged by Schnittke), and Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" in a wind arrangement. The performance blends music and dance, highlighting the cyclical nature of the seasons and culminating in a celestial apotheosis.

Gewandhausorchester, Omer Meir Wellber Dirigent/Klavier

Omer Meir Wellber is a dynamic conductor, musician, and composer who enjoys experimenting and avoids the ordinary. This concert features Glasunov's "The Seasons" ballet cycle, Mahler's Piano Quartet Scherzo (arranged by Schnittke), and Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons" in a wind arrangement. The performance blends music and dance, highlighting the cyclical nature of the seasons and culminating in a celestial apotheosis.

Piano Recital

Grigory Sokolov, photo: Mary Slepkova / DG Grigory Sokolov has worked hard to secure privileges that few contemporary musicians can boast. He gives practically no interviews, rarely visits the recording studio, has performed solo for a number of years and compiles his own recital programmes, without particularly hurrying to announce them. He first sat at a piano at the age of five, almost 70 years ago. Ever since he has been reluctant to part with his beloved instrument, especially during his lengthy performances, giving endless encores (at times as long as a separate recital). Paradoxically, he is a rare example of an artist who communicates with the outside world almost exclusively through his performances, which force reviewers into extraordinary, at times quite humorous, verbal gymnastics in search of the right concepts to describe the artistry of his playing and the aura he creates around him. A voluminous anthology of surprising metaphors might be compiled from the texts on Sokolov’s playing, which may suggest that it is impossible to capture the personality of this remarkable pianist, let alone his interpretations, in words. Bartłomiej Gembicki

Piano Recital

András Schiff, photo: Nadia F Romanini The repertoire will be announced by the artist on the stage.

Recital fran­çais

The first chamber concert of the new season, "Recital français," features rare brass and brass/piano works from the French musical tradition. Members of the Essen Philharmonic will perform chamber music by composers such as Théo Charlier, Eugène Brozza, Camille Saint-Saëns, and organist Alexandre Guilmant.

Konzertexamen Recital

Summer Nights Villanelle (a type of poem) The Ghost of the Rose Absence The Unknown Island

Piano Recital

Violin Recital

Augustin Hadelich, photo: Suxiao_Yang Augustin Hadelich used the time of the Covid-19 pandemic to study solo works by Johann Sebastian Bach. He has the good fortune to play on a unique violin called ‘Leduc’, once owned by the famous virtuoso Henryk Szeryng and considered by some to be the last work of the Cremonese lutenist Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù. On this instrument, he recorded a two-CD album of Bach sonatas and partitas. Hadelich matched a copy of a Baroque bow to an eighteenth-century violin, but without completely abandoning the ‘modern’ aesthetic in which he grew up. Two Bach partitas will open and close his recital at the Warsaw Philharmonic, consisting of varied examples of solo violin music. In his Blue/s Forms, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson drew on intervals characteristic of blues and jazz that are lowered for expressive purposes (so-called blue notes). David Lang’s Mystery Sonatas, a cycle premiered in 2014 by Augustin Hadelich, is a conscious (albeit distant) reference to the famous work of the brilliant Baroque violinist Heinrich Ignaz Biber. As for Eugène Ysaÿe’s showstopping Sonata No. 3, dedicated to Romanian composer George Enescu, it ranks alongside Bach’s sonatas and partitas among the greatest and most popular challenges of the solo violin repertoire. The concert will take place in the Concert Hall, and not, as previously planned, in the Chamber Music Hall.