Wolfgang Haffner

Wolfgang Haffner & Friends

The legendary drummer Wolfgang Haffner has been on stage for 50 years. That’s a reason to celebrate! Haffner is gathering together an illustrious list of guests, friends and companions who have made their mark on his career. Who exactly will be there remains a surprise for the time being. What is certain is that it will be a jazz concert in a class of its own.

Erich Wolf­gang Korn­gold

This chamber concert explores the chamber music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, known for his film scores and operas. Featuring works from different stages of his life, from the complex early work Op. 1 to vocal pieces, the concert showcases the diverse palette of Korngold's chamber music and offers insights into his fascinating life and versatile work.

musica viva | Wolfgang Rihm

For Wolfgang Rihm – I

musica viva is celebrating Wolfgang Rihm’s 70th birthday with a week of concerts. Since the 1970s, when he burst upon Germany’s music scene as an enfant terrible, Rihm has embodied the unconditionality of the creative act. It is thus no accident that his 1978 essay on pain and pleasure bore the title Ins eigene Fleisch (“mortifying the flesh”) and dealt with the close bond between mind and body. The same applies to the quintet studies he wrote for composer-clarinettist Jörg Widmann, his former student and perhaps even his soul-mate, who will present them with soloists from the BRSO in Munich’s recital hall.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Requiem

The pairing of Mozart’s Requiem with his penultimate symphony, No. 40, by one of the foremost Baroque ensembles in the world, Bach Collegium Japan, with its principal conductor Masato Suzuki at the podium.

Johannes Brahms / Erich Wolfgang Korngold

The string sextets of Brahms and Korngold—masterpieces of Viennese Romanticism—bring cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand together with the musicians of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France in a rare chamber configuration.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall performs Mozart’s Mass in C minor, a monument of sacred music which, while partly influenced by the works of Bach and Handel, possesses a supernatural beauty belonging solely to the Austrian composer.

Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jens Peter Maintz / Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

»Cello Duello« is both the name and the programme, a musical contest that the two artists fight out on stage. »Cello Duello« - that sounds damn martial. But none of that. Although Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt bring weighty ›weapons‹ and a virtuoso bow to the battle, they play more in cooperation than in opposition. Both parts are absolutely equal, the parts sometimes alternate in rapid tempo, an artistic all-round pleasure!« (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung). Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt have been performing together on the world’s stages as »Cello Duello« for over 30 years and have been guests at all the major cello festivals: the Kronberg Festival, the Amsterdam Biennale, Musical Viva Moscow or the International Piatigorsky Cello Festival in Los Angeles. They have given concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Vienna Musikverein and present a varied, highly virtuosic firework of cellistic joy and sound art.