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Götz Alsmann, a unique entertainer, delights audiences on radio and television. The music scholar presents famous works from the current Essen Philharmonic's program. With charm and humor, Alsmann shows that knowledge increases enjoyment, without needing to be a scholar to enjoy classical music.
Carl Maria von Weber's friendship with Munich court clarinetist Joseph Bärmann inspired three works, including Clarinet Concerto No. 2, which will be performed by Sharon Kam. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's only symphony also features the clarinet prominently. This F-sharp major symphony blends Hollywood sounds with Austrian nostalgia, reflecting Korngold's exile experience. The world premiere of a piece by Florian Kovacic, conducted by Yoel Gamzou, further explores stylistic fusion.
Carl Maria von Weber's friendship with Munich court clarinetist Joseph Bärmann inspired three works, including Clarinet Concerto No. 2, which will be performed by Sharon Kam. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's only symphony also features the clarinet prominently. This F-sharp major symphony blends Hollywood sounds with Austrian nostalgia, reflecting Korngold's exile experience. The world premiere of a piece by Florian Kovacic, conducted by Yoel Gamzou, further explores stylistic fusion.
The Tonhain hall in Berlin-Steglitz was built in 1911/12 by the architects P. Berthild and W. Baumgarten and originally housed a cinema. When the Tonhain offered itself as a home for the collective in 2022, the idea was born to programme the historical legacy of the Tonhain in works that either influenced film music or were influenced by it. We are all familiar with these soundscapes, as the music and film industries have been closely intertwined since the 20th century. The varied programme, which begins with John Corigliano’s »The Red Violin Caprices« and ends with Korngold’s lavishly scored piano quintet, blurs the boundary between film music and concert music.
Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, Ensemble Modern conducted by HK Gruber, and ensemble amarcord present a concert highlighting vocals. They perform a diverse program focused on modern works. Giunta sings Anna in Kurt Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins," contrasted by amarcord as her family. Gruber's direction avoids vulgarity in this social critique. Works by Schönberg, Hindemith, and Korngold round out the evening.
The Frankfurt Radio Symphony traditionally welcomes the New Year with an entertaining and anspruchsvollen program in Wiesbaden's Kurhaus, this time led by young Lithuanian conductor Izabelė Jankauskaitė. The orchestra's Assistant Conductor, who won the Neeme Järvi Prize in 2022, will present a program of Viennese waltzes with Brazilian violinist Guido Sant'Anna.
The hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt will welcome the new year with an entertaining and demanding program at the Wiesbaden Kurhaus, led by Lithuanian conductor Izabelė Jankauskaitė. The program will present a captivating program of Viennese waltzes.
The Sunday Morning Concert brings you wonderful and much-loved compositions, performed by top musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Enjoy the most beautiful music in the morning! You can make your Sunday complete by enjoying a delicious post-concert lunch in restaurant LIER.The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. Attend a concert and have an experience you will never forget. Come and enjoy inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the intimate Recital Hall.
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.
One of the greatest poets of all time, William Shakespeare is at the center of the season’s first Lied und Lyrik program. Roderick Williams and Julius Drake trace the Bard’s musical heritage in English, German, and French settings from three centuries, with Toby Jones returning to read Shakespeare’s original texts.
Colombine sadly watches the snowy marketplace, unable to meet her beloved Pierrot due to Pantalone's jealousy. Children build a snowman, but suddenly scatter—did it move? Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed this ballet music at eleven, enchanting Vienna. Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO retells the story, creating festive fun.
Individuality finding harmonious expression in an ensemble – this is the quintessence of the Vogler Quartet, which has been pursuing a unique global career with an unchanged line-up since its formation in 1985. With an intelligent approach to chamber music, outstanding playing technique and interpretive sensitivity, Tim Vogler, Frank Reinecke, Stefan Fehlandt and Stephan Forck have created an unmistakable string quartet sound which consistently offers new insights into the genre. The group has had a concert series at the Konzerthaus Berlin since 1993.
Truman Capote tells touching and melancholy Christmas stories whose precisely drawn characters remain unforgettable. On the one hand, there is little Buddy, who bakes fruitcake with his old friend Sook every Christmas and finds out where he really belongs at another Christmas with his father, who is almost a stranger to him. Capote must have observed with a keen eye; what certainty or fantasy, what embellishment or dishonesty means; the mercilessness of his observations is, as always with this writer, only tempered by his skill and the clarity of his polished language. The actor Jens Harzer reads Capote’s Christmas memoirs. His deep feeling for stories and narratives; his way of balancing sentiment and reason is brilliant. At major German-speaking theatres in Munich, Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, among others, Harzer is the charismatic leader in his plays, underpinning his status as a subtly gigantic character actor. Oscillating seemingly effortlessly between his roles, he manages to throw everything into the balance and make each character his own. The current winner of the prestigious Iffland Ring, Jens Harzer, can now be seen in Hamburg, Hanover and Berlin with Capote’s Christmas Memories. He will be accompanied musically by the renowned and award-winning musicians Ulf Schneider (violin) and Jan Philip Schulze (grand piano). The two have enjoyed a close artistic collaboration for many years; their preference for thematically orientated projects is particularly noteworthy. Naturally, they will accompany the evening with music from America, just like the stories themselves. She draws an arc from the wonderfully romantic musical language of Florence Price, the first African-American woman to become famous as a composer of classical music, to the energetic drive of John Adams, a star of »minimal music«. Not forgetting the jazz sounds of Gershwin and the opulent »Hollywood sound« of the exile Erich Korngold. Text and music illuminate each other and are lovingly harmonised. A production by Simone Henke :kunstgerecht
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
According to Theodor Fontane, happiness lies in small things, which could also describe songs. Soprano Sarah Wegener explores this happiness in her Cologne concert. She performs songs like Richard Strauss's "Traum durch die Dämmerung," which questions where happiness lies. Wegener, known for her intense performances, joins pianist Götz Payer in this pursuit of happiness.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto with Vilde Frang as the soloist. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto with Vilde Frang as the soloist. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
At times melancholic and rugged, at others with a dance-like lightness: Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony presents a broad spectrum of contrasting moods, infused with the unmistakable colouring of Czech folk music. Kirill Petrenko also conducts Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto with Vilde Frang as the soloist. Exiled from his native Vienna, Korngold brought his lush late romantic harmonic language to Hollywood; in this piece, his film music can be heard again and again. Sergei Rachmaninov’s mystical tone poem The Isle of the Dead takes us into yet another hypnotic sound world.
Zur neuen Spielzeit bringt James Gaffigan ein Stück seiner Heimat New York mit an die Komische Oper Berlin! Während unser Generalmusikdirektor hier eine Wahlheimat gefunden hat, steuerte im 20. Jahrhundert so manch prominenter europäischer Komponist den sicheren Hafen Amerika an. Für Antonín Dvořák und Gustav Mahler eröffnete New York einflussreiche berufliche Möglichkeiten. Kurt Weill befasste sich am Broadway mit dem aufstrebenden Musical. Erich Wolfgang Korngold setzte in Hollywood wiederum den Grundstein für das Filmmusikgenre und inspirierte durch seine Soundtracks nicht zuletzt Filmmusiklegende John Williams. Auf den amerikanischen Erfolg hatten zweifelsohne nicht nur die Komponisten, sondern auch ihre Begleiterinnen einen Einfluss. Ensemblesängerin Susan Zarrabi verleiht den Frauen in Kurt-Weill-Songs aus One Touch of Venus und Lost in the stars eine unvergleichliche Stimme. Schauspielerin Evamaria Salcher gibt zudem amüsante Einblicke in das Leben von Lotte Lenya bis hin zu Alma Mahler. Von Dvořáks schwelgerischer »American Suite« bis zum Weltschmerz in Mahlers 10. Sinfonie ist am Abend somit für alle etwas dabei – eine spannende Zeitreise in das »Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten«! Weiterlesen Weniger anzeigen
The String Quintet in F major is the only major chamber music work by Anton Bruckner, whose 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2024. The Philharmonic String Quartet and Amihai Grosz, principal violist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, present the piece in this concert. The evening will open with Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Second String Quartet, which has a distinctive Viennese lilt. A constant in this season’s Philharmonic Chamber Music concerts is the music of our composer in residence Wolfgang Rihm. Here you can hear his dark, finely-spun Grave, written in memory of violist Thomas Kakuska.
The »Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis« has been honouring young classical artists since 2015 – the internationally renowned concept prize not only evaluates the technical virtuosity of the applicants, but also places particular emphasis on innovative concepts and visionary design. The young talents are given absolute freedom in their musical projects.
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