Classical concerts featuring

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller

Benefizkonzert des Bundespräsidenten

The WDR Symphony Orchestra will perform at the German President's benefit concert in 2025. Proceeds will support the Elly Heuss-Knapp Foundation, which provides health support for mothers, fathers, and caregivers. The concert will feature a diverse program including works by Enescu, Ravel, Korngold, and Bernstein, with Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and Sebastian Hornung as soloists. A reception hosted by President Steinmeier and Ministerpräsident Wüst will follow the concert. Fatma Said has cancelled her appearance due to pregnancy.

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller | Daniel Ottensamer | Juliane Ruf

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, a young and successful soprano, emphasizes the importance of song selection in her recitals. She appreciates the intimate atmosphere of Lieder, performing without the distractions of costumes or sets. In Cologne, she will perform with her long-time piano partner, Juliane Ruf, and clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer.

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller. Daniel Ottensamer. Juliane Ruf Aus allen Himmelsrichtungen

Much has happened since Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and her piano partner first collaborated at the 2011 Heidelberg Spring Music Festival, which developed into a highly successful song duo. The Mannheim-born soprano's brilliant career has taken her to the world's best opera houses, and she is also a regular soloist with top international orchestras. This exquisite program, spanning four languages, showcases Müller's love and intelligence for her Lieder evenings. Daniel Ottensamer, solo clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic, joins as a virtuoso guest.

Meister & Müller

»No original feeling … nothing but technical skill, calculation and inner deceit, a sickly, ill-tasting Supermusic«, an outraged critic wrote of the premiere of Mahler’s Fourth in Munich in 1901. Today we speak of a masterpiece. One can love or hate Mahler’s symphonies: some suffer vicariously with them, understanding their loneliness and loving their melancholy. Others find them outré, self-indulgent, hysterical. In the Fourth, it’s all not so bad. »We revel in heavenly pleasures«, it says at the end.

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | Cornelius Meister

In 1903, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg first met in Vienna, starting a collegial friendship. The program of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin features these pioneers of modernism alongside Unsuk Chin's concert suite from her opera "Alice in Wonderland." Schönberg's groundbreaking Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1935 orchestral version) and Mahler's lighthearted Symphony No. 4, with its final song based on the Bavarian children's song "Der Himmel hängt voll Geigen," are performed. Chin's "Alice" suite, "Puzzles and Games," a surreal music theatre scene for voice and orchestra, which premiered successfully at the 2017 ACHT BRÜCKEN festival, is also featured.

Meister in Bad Kissingen

125 years Wiener Symphoniker