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Married couple Martin Helmchen (piano) and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) have been making chamber music together for many years. Along with violinist Carolin Widmann, they've recently founded the Spreewald Chamber Music Festival in 2023. This trio is known for its finely tuned interpretations and uncompromising passion, reflecting Widmann's motto: "Better full risk. It simply sounds better."
The Netherlands Philharmonic is one of the most versatile cultural organisations in The Netherlands. The orchestra organises a diverse concert program in The Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam and is a welcome guest on foreign stages and festivals. The Netherlands Philharmonic brings classical music to life at the highest level and collaborates closely with international guest soloists and conductors. It takes great pleasure in welcoming and developing new musical talent. Lorenzo Viotti is the principal conductor of Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Philharmonic.
Clara Schumann's piano concerto is stunningly beautiful and a sparkling fireworks display. She was one of the most admired and influential pianists of the 19th century, performing in the same league as Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. In the concerto, we also hear the inspiration from Chopin, whom she preferred over Liszt. Clara Schumann was only 16 years old when she premiered the virtuosic concerto herself in Leipzig in 1835.The soloist in Clara Schumann's piano concerto is the Romanian-British pianist Alexandra Dariescu, known for her expressive playing as well as her advocacy for female composers. Around the same time Clara performed her piano concerto, she met her future husband Robert, one of the great figures of Romantic music. His impassioned overture to the incidental music for Manfred is based on Lord Byron's dramatic poem.Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a friend of Clara and Robert Schumann – also a great Romantic with a particular sense for melodic beauty. This is evident in his Fifth Symphony, which is also a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach. Swedish conductor Magnus Fryklund makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with this concert. Educated in Denmark, he has made a name for himself particularly as a skilled opera conductor, including in France.
World-renowned and legendary, Uwe Scholz's choreographic work remains impactful. As choreographer and ballet director in Leipzig (1991-2004), he shaped the ballet's identity. "Scholz Symphonies" is a tribute, combining two of his major ballets. Robert Schumann's Second Symphony explores joy and struggle, while his Seventh Symphony, set to Beethoven's music, is a delicate and life-affirming masterpiece.
Returning to Hamburg for the again, New Jersey Sinfonietta presents four extraordinary young musicians, aged 14 to 17, who will captivate audiences with their award-winning performances. As winners of the 2024 competition, these gifted performers represent the future of classical music, combining technical mastery with artistic depth. Aligned with the New Jersey Sinfonietta’s mission to nurture young talent through exceptional performance opportunities, this concert is a unique chance to witness the next generation of classical virtuosos.
World-renowned and legendary, Uwe Scholz's choreographic work remains impactful. As choreographer and ballet director in Leipzig (1991-2004), he shaped the ballet's identity. "Scholz Symphonies" is a tribute, combining two of his major ballets. Robert Schumann's Second Symphony explores joy and struggle, while his Seventh Symphony, set to Beethoven's music, is a delicate and life-affirming masterpiece.
World-renowned and legendary, Uwe Scholz's choreographic work remains impactful. As choreographer and ballet director in Leipzig (1991-2004), he shaped the ballet's identity. "Scholz Symphonies" is a tribute, combining two of his major ballets. Robert Schumann's Second Symphony explores joy and struggle, while his Seventh Symphony, set to Beethoven's music, is a delicate and life-affirming masterpiece.
For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!
World-renowned and legendary, Uwe Scholz's choreographic work remains impactful. As choreographer and ballet director in Leipzig (1991-2004), he shaped the ballet's identity. "Scholz Symphonies" is a tribute, combining two of his major ballets. Robert Schumann's Second Symphony explores joy and struggle, while his Seventh Symphony, set to Beethoven's music, is a delicate and life-affirming masterpiece.
Alexander Lonquich is famous not only for his nuanced sound, but also for his original programming. For this programme, he has chosen a wide range of colourful discoveries that convey maximum expressivity in short movements. Alongside Bruckner’s delicate Erinnerung, there are two ebullient piano sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and these are offset by alternatingly powerful and melancholic works by composer in residence Wolfgang Rihm, who died in July. Little-known Novellettes by Robert Schumann, a master of the expressive piano miniature, also punctuate the evening.
Since his revelation at the Geneva Competition in 1990, Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner has proven one most captivating performers of his generation. In particular with Chopin, Debussy and Schumann, whose works he never tires of reexploring at the piano.
A luminary of the German Romantic symphonic repertoire meets a master of elegant French piano playing: Marek Janowski returns to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to perform Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.
World-renowned and legendary, Uwe Scholz's choreographic work remains impactful. As choreographer and ballet director in Leipzig (1991-2004), he shaped the ballet's identity. "Scholz Symphonies" is a tribute, combining two of his major ballets. Robert Schumann's Second Symphony explores joy and struggle, while his Seventh Symphony, set to Beethoven's music, is a delicate and life-affirming masterpiece.
Eduard Mörike's first poetry collection, published in 1838, drew the attention of composers like Schumann, Brahms, and Franz. Though they set few of his poems to music, their choices, including "Er ist's" and "An eine Äolsharfe," reflect their esteem for his lyrical quality. Even Wolfgang Rihm used Mörike's poetry in his 2009 "Zwei kleine Lieder."
A luminary of the German Romantic symphonic repertoire meets a master of elegant French piano playing: Marek Janowski returns to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to perform Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.
A mysterious stranger who only reveals his true identity after some time. Two different personalities between whom an exciting scene unfolds: for Augustin Hadelich, Mozart’s music is stories. »He was a composer who always thought dramatically, in story arcs; he wrote operas – and much of his instrumental music is composed in precisely this kind of language.« In Hadelich’s ProArte concert, audiences can experience twice how these instrumental stories sound live – with Mozart’s Second and Fifth Violin Concertos. The orchestral part is in the hands of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, which has Mozart’s music written into its DNA, so to speak. Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, originally conceived as a »symphonic fantasy«, also tells a story.
During their lifetime, French composer Louise Farrenc and Emilie Mayer from Mecklenburg were more than just respected composers. The original sound ensemble Concerto Köln commemorates the two Romantic composers with two orchestral works. Robert Schumann's unique violin concerto completes the program. Berlioz, impressed by Farrenc's Overture No. 2, praised her highly. Mayer's Symphony No. 7 demonstrates why she was celebrated as the "female Beethoven". Schumann's Violin Concerto, though written earlier, premiered only in 1937. Concerto Köln's concertmaster, Shunske Sato, will perform as soloist.
A whole range of stops will be pulled out once again: This time, an experienced and acclaimed organist will be our guest at the keys and pedals of our concert organ, much loved by the audience. Together with strings from the Bamberg Symphony, he will present several works that are wonderfully fitting for this Advent Sunday. The first part is dedicated to baroque music: after three touching solo pieces by Bach, a long-lost concerto for organ and violin by Vivaldi is performed – a particularly melody-laden example of his boundless artistry. In the second part, Tomaž Sevšek offers a foray into other musical realms – including a work composed in 1951 by his compatriot Primož Ramovš, whose numerous organ pieces have only rarely been performed in Germany to date. Portuguese composer João Pedro Oliveira is a versatile and award-winning composer: »Persistent Particles« from 2021 experiments with the tonal and technical possibilities of the organ in a fascinating manner. Schumann rented a pedal keyboard for his grand piano in 1845, which gave him and his wife Clara »much delight«. One of the results was the intimate study for pedal piano – in which Schumann expressed his spiritual and compositional affinity with Bach. The French composer Alexandre Guilmant expressed his fondness for the German Romantic composer in his atmospheric work »Final alla Schumann« in 1893.
Founded while its members were all still studying at the renowned Royal College of Music in London, the Chiaroscuro Quartet will be celebrating its 20th anniversary next year. After all that time it is no wonder that Alina Ibragimova, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Emilie Hörnlund and Claire Thirion share an implicit trust when making music together. One particular thing that makes them so special is the historical instruments they play on, which gives many well-known works an unexpected, fresh sound. They are joined by the world-class pianist Cédric Tiberghien, who has been Alina Ibragimova’s piano partner for many years now. He too is playing an historical grand piano for the evening’s programme. From his Op. 9 onwards, Joseph Haydn regarded his string quartets as part of the genre that he would go down in music history as having founded. Rather than writing divertimentos, commissioned by aristocratic patrons as a distracting amusement, he was now set on writing music to be listened to. And the Chiaroscuro Quartet, whose Haydn recordings were described by BR as a »sprightly, irresistibly brilliant attack on the ear – thrilling in the best sense of the word«, certainly demand to be listened to with a captivated attention. It promises to be equally lively when the quartet applies its playing style to the Romantics Schumann and Brahms, accompanied by the pianist Cédric Tiberghien, who won the German Record Critics’ Award with a Brahms chamber music album. Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet is at times tumultuous and at other times extremely tender, written to involve his wife, the piano virtuoso Clara Schumann, in the recent successes of his chamber music. Being a close friend of Johannes Brahms, she in turn encouraged him to rewrite a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet, fearing that otherwise »many of the most beautiful ideas would be lost«. Brahms took her advice and went on to create chamber music filled with magnificent, almost orchestral tonal colours.
The master class of chamber music.