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