“An unearthly melody characterized the Mozart Matinee on Sunday” Salzburger Nachrichten. PROGRAM Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 139 – “Waisenhaus”; Adagio and Fugue for Strings, K. 546; Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. 339
Salzburg Festival 2020: The Belcea Quartet
“As gripping as the Belcea Quartet performed this listening adventure, no question marks remained at the end” Salzburger Nachrichten. PROGRAM Beethoven; String Quartets Nos 7 & 9; Webern: Slow Movement for String Quartet
Salzburg Festival 2020: Mozarteum Orchestra & Manze
“Perhaps the most delightful surprise was the all-Mozart matinee conducted by British conductor Andrew Manze, who established an easy rapport with the Mozarteumorchester”
The Times. PROGRAM Mozart: Symphony, K. 385 – “Haffner”; Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, K. 417; Serenade, K. 525 – “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, K. 537 – “Coronation Concerto”; Sonata for Piano No. 18, K. 576 – II. Adagio
Salzburg Festival 2020: The Minguet Quartet
The search goes into silence, occurs above all in the many intervals between the quietest and softest string sounds” FAZ. PROGRAM Works by Beethoven, Verdi, Ockeghem and Nono
Salzburg Festival 2020: Camerata Salzburg & Metzmacher
“An insane program … A fascinating and crazy border crossing, never in danger of falling. And the audience is cheering” Die Welt. PROGRAM Ligeti: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Ligatura-Message to Frances-Marie (The Answered Unanswered Question), Op. 31b, “Ruhelos” from Kafka-Fragmente, Op. 24; Nörmiger: Toden Tanz from Tabulaturbuch auff dem Instrumente; Anonym: Byzantine Chant on Psalm 140; Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, D. 810 “Der Tod und das Mädchen”; Dowland: Pavane “Lachrimæ Antiquæ Novæ” for String Quintet from Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares
Salzburg Festival 2020: Sonya Yoncheva sings baroque arias
Contemplative, dramatic, spirited, lively – and all these facets united by absolute beauty and perfection: This describes the Baroque Evening in Salzburg’s Haus für Mozart. Sonya Yoncheva dedicated her recital to 17th- and 18th-Century music, together with Argentinian conductor Leonardo García Alarcón and his Cappella Mediterranea, all renowned specialists in baroque music. Vocal and instrumental music by Monteverdi, Purcell, Cavalli, Dowland and many others enchants the public – and a surprise, when Sonya Yoncheva proves with an encore how much Folk & Pop and Baroque music have in common… “Bulgarian Sonya Yoncheva currently has one of the most sensual soprano voices in the world of opera. Yoncheva stirs and soothes, with delicately sparkling melodic jewels of Stradella, Monteverdi, Cavalli and Caldara, but also with Spanish, Gibbons, Dowland and Purcell” Die Welt
Salzburg Festival 2020: Mozarteum Orchestra & Capuano
“Julia Lezhneva shone….she is cut like a precious diamond with inclusions of ruby red brilliance” Salzburger Nachrichten. PROGRAM Mozart: Symphonies K. 201 & K. 183; “Quel nocchier che in gran procella” from La Betulia liberata, K. 118; “Voi avete un cor fedele” Aria for soprano and orchestra, K. 217; “Ch’io mi scordi di te?” Recitative and rondo for
soprano with piano and orchestra, K. 505; “Exsultate, jubilate” Motet for soprano and orchestra, K. 165
Salzburg Festival 2019: Barenboim conducts the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Acclaimed by critics as an evening of superlative, Martha Argerich – arguably the greatest living pianist – joins Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for an unforgettable interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Argerich’s playing is full of astonishing virtuosity and uncompromising, alternating with breakneck passages and tender tones: “Martha Argerich is and remains unique” (Die Presse). In addition to Tchaikovsky’s brilliant piece, Schubert’s Symphony “Unfinished” is played, a work that has never been performed during the composer’s lifetime, as well as Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra, completed in 1945 – a highly demanding technical piece that challenges orchestra members as virtuosos. PROGRAM Schubert: Symphony No 7; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1; Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Salzburg Festival 2019: Haitink conducts Bruckner & Beethoven
To end his active conducting career after 65 years, maestro Bernard Haitink together with the Wiener Philharmoniker gives a farewell concert at the Grosses Festspielhaus, leaving no doubt of being one of the best Bruckner interpreters ever. The Dutch conductor, who was appointed honorary member of the Wiener Philharmoniker shortly before the concert, is joined by star pianist Emanuel Ax in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. The concert ends with Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 7: “No more Bruckner under Haitink, that’s a cut in the history of interpretation” (Wiener Zeitung). PROGRAM Bruckner: Symphony No 7; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4
Hollywood in Vienna – A Night at the Oscars with Gabriel Yared
Hollywood in Vienna is the world’s first and unique film music gala concert, celebrating the most renowned film composers of our time. This year’s gala is dedicated to the motto “A Night at the Oscars” and to Gabriel Yared. Under the direction of Keith Lockhart, the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien undertakes a glamorous journey through eight decades of film music. Gabriel Yared furthermore treats the Viennese audience to one of his rare public performances on the piano. Featuring music from The English Patient, Chocolat, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, The Lives of Others, Jaws, Black Panther, Forrest Gump and many more