“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: Dudamel conducts Liszt & Stravinsky
“Evgeny Kissin is one of the best technicians on the keys” Süddeutsche Zeitung. PROGRAM Liszt: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1; Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird)
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: Mozarteum Orchestra & Bolton
“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