“The manual skills, the virtuosic and differentiated use of the pedal and the relaxed arm position and sound quality of 79-year-old Argerich are simply unique. A great moment of chamber music” BR Klassik. PROGRAM Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8; Prokofiev: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2; Franck: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major
Salzburg Festival 2020: Mozarteum Orchestra & Fischer
“One of the most important Mozart interpreters of our days provided great excitement at the final matinee on Sunday: Ádám Fischer at the podium inspired the musicians to remarkable performances” Die Presse. PROGRAM Mozart: Symphony No. 1, K. 16; Serenade, K. 203 – “Colloredo”; Symphony No. 41, K. 551 – “Jupiter”
Salzburg Festival 2020: András Schiff plays Schubert and Janácek
“The virtuosic and at the same time musical brilliance made the audience hold its breath. An experience” Der Standard. PROGRAM Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935 . Piano Sonata, D. 840, Impromptu No. 3, D. 899, Moment musical No. 3, D. 780; Janácek: In the Mists (V mlhách), Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905, Dobrou noc! (Good Night!); Bartók: Kanásztánc (Swine-herd‘s Dance) from For Children
Salzburg Festival 2020: Juan Diego Flórez Recital
“You have to start with the encore. Then you can understand why there were standing ovations and thunderous applause for Juan Diego Flórez, why the words ?great moment of the festival’ were heard among the audience. For the encore Juan Diego Flórez comes on stage with his guitar…a tango, then ?Cielito Lindo’, he lets the audience sing along, ?Ay ay ay ay’. A born entertainer” BR Klassik. Works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Strauss, Bellini, Verdi, Lalo, Massenet and Puccini
Salzburg Festival 2020: Martin Grubinger and The Percussive Planet Ensemble
“The performances of the Salzburg percussion star with the Percussive Planet Ensemble always have something sporty and relaxed about them. How these breathtakingly virtuoso patterns finally culminated in three-four time techno touched even younger generations. An elementary concert event” Salzburger Nachrichten. PROGRAM Rihm: Tutuguri VI (Kreuze), Music after a poem by Antonin Artaud; Xenakis: Pléïades; Reich: Drumming (Part One)
Salzburg Festival 2020: Camerata Salzburg & Honeck
“Rarely has the warmth that this miraculous movement evokes in people been so intense as in the matinee of the Camerata Salzburg on Sunday. Ottensamer’s interaction with the orchestra brought about another, for many, last unforgettable moment of this festival summer” Salzburger Nachrichten. PROGRAM: PÄRT: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin; MOZART: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra K. 622; STRAUSS: Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Salzburg Festival 2020: Igor Levit plays Beethoven
“Igor Levit tackled the wide-ranging program with characteristic technical brilliance and emotional engagement” The New York Times. PROGRAM Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32
Salzburg Festival 2020: Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
“Fluid, but without hectic, Barenboim let the endless melody blossom, strength and tenderness were no opposites. Emmanuel Pahud from the Berliner Philharmoniker played the flute […] and was not the only celebrity in the orchestra: in addition to Barenboim’s son Michael as concertmaster and Kian Soltani as solo cellist, the conductor and pianist Lahav Shani, the successor of Zubin Mehta at the head of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, was on the double bass” Die Presse. PROGRAM Wagner: Siegfried Idyll for Chamber Orchestra; Schönberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9; Boulez: Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe… Originel) for solo flute and eight instruments; Beethoven: Große Fuge, Op. 133 (Version by Daniel Barenboim, 2020)
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