The inaugural concert of Daniele Gatti as the new music director of Amsterdam’s fabled Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – only the seventh in its 128-year history. Together with baritone Christian Gerhaher, Gatti presented a bouquet of works including Mozart arias and the Wayfarer Songs by Gustav Mahler, with whom the “world’s best orchestra” (Gramophone international music critics’ poll) has a unique tradition going back to the composer himself – who called Amsterdam his “second musical home”. The programme also includes Respighi’s Fountains of Rome as well as overtures by Verdi and Beethoven – with 30 members of the Netherlands Youth Orchestra joining the RCO musicians for the Overture to Egmont.
Famous Opera Choirs
Mozartwoche 2002
Mozartwoche 2000
Mozartwoche 1997
Schubert, Four Impromptus op.90
Krystian Zimerman was born in Zabrze (Poland) on 7 December 1956. He made his first major breakthrough in 1975, when he won the first prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. His friendship with Artur Rubinstein exerted a lasting influence on him in his youth. After expanding his repertoire and studying in London in 1980, he began to make a name for himself as one of the most talented pianists of his generation through numerous concerts and recordings. Further important stations in his career were his projects with such great conductors as Bernstein, Giulini and Karajan. The Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski dedicated a piano concerto to him, which he premiered in Salzburg in 1988.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Tokyo
“A brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary” (Wall Street Journal) French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is widely acclaimed as an authority in music of our time while recognized also for shedding fresh light on music of the past. His international schedule of concerts and recordings is complemented by a career-long commitment to teaching, giving concert lectures and workshops worldwide. In this recital, a special concert for music students given at the Tokyo University of the Arts, the pianist performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert and György Kurtág.
Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden 2023
It is the traditional start to the pre-Christmas season for classical music lovers throughout Germany: On the eve of the First Advent, the Frauenkirche shines in its baroque splendour and offers a magnificent experience with the Sächsische Staatskapelle under the baton of its music director Christian Thielemann and internationally renowned singers. This edition’s guests are soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (“with a smooth, melodious, effortless sounding voice and great diction”, Online Merker) and tenor Mauro Peter (“offering a lyrical swell with depth”, Sächsische Zeitung). The programme includes baroque instrumental music, Romantic choir works and atmospheric arias. Together with “his” orchestra, “Christian Thielemann spread ut a carpet of pulsating sonority, dynamically highly differentiated, flexibly responding to the respective partners.” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)
Zubin Mehta – 85th Birthday Concert
On April 29, 2021, the 85th birthday of his close friend and colleague Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim is hosting a very private birthday concert: the pianist, conductor and general music director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden hands over the direction of “his” orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, to the jubilarian with whom he has been friends for decades – in private and musical terms. On the program are Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with Daniel Barenboim as soloist and Franz Schubert’s last Symphony “The Great”. PROGRAM: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Schubert: Symphony No. 9
Daniel Barenboim: The Complete Schubert Sonatas
Star pianist Daniel Barenboim embarks on a survey of Schubert’s completed piano sonatas. In each of the four recitals in the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Barenboim offers a journey through Schubert’s creative life, from the youthful sonatas of the earlier years to the great masterworks written during his final months. Universally recognized as supreme expressions of the Romantic spirit, these works, ignored after the composer’s death for more than a century, today stand at the centre of the piano repertoire, side by side with the piano works of Beethoven, Schubert’s admired predecessor and contemporary. The press raves about the Maestro’s Schubert interpretation: “Superb Schubert from
an Old Master.” (Bachtrack) “This is Schubert at his most intense. Breathtaking!” (Guardian) // Concert I: 83′; Concert II: 97′; Concert III: 88′; Concert IV: 87′;