Program 2012
Opening Concert
Saturday 23 June 15:00
Opening Concert:
Opened by Prof. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Minister of Science, Research and Culture in the Fedreral State of Brandenburg
Patricia Pagny
Photo: Christian Quarta
Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder)
- Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37 - Anton Bruckner:
Symphony No.4 in E-flat major
- Piano:
- Patricia Pagny
- Conductor:
- Howard Griffiths
Two masterpieces from the reportoire ranging between the Classic and Romantic. Beethoven set the standards for his musical descendants. His third piano concerto demonstartes his transition from the Classical to Romantic styles with its minor key,turbulent passages and freedom of form. Decades later Bruckner was also to demonstrate his musical courage in his fourth symphony, „Romantic“, which is one of his best known and most often performed compositions.
Martin Stadtfeld
Photo: Uwe Arens
Sunday 24 June 15:00
Amadé Chamber Philharmonic
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Piano Concert No.27 B-flat major KV 595
Serenade D KV 250 „Haffner“
- Piano:
- Martin Stadtfeld
- Conductor:
- Frieder Obstfeld
Mozart's festive work was commissioned for a wedding. Mozart completed this, his final piano concerto, eleven months before his death. Lighthearted music for joy-and sorrow. Performed by one of today's finest young pianists and an especially talented youth orchestra.
Gabriel Feltz
Photo: yourlook GmbH
Saturday 30 June 15:00
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Sitkovetsky Trio
- Sofia Gubaidulina:
Fairytale Poem - Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concert for Violin, Cello and
Orchestra in C Op. 56 „Triple Concerto“ - Peter Tschaikowski:
Symphony Nr. 5 in E minor Op. 64
- Violine:
- Alexander Sitkovetsky
- Cello:
- Leonard Elschenbroich
- Piano:
- Wu Quian
- Conductor:
- Gabriel Feltz
Musical „Immodesty“ from two centuries. Gubaidulina's Fairy Tale poem features as its hero a piece of chalk which has to write boring mathematics on a blackboard, and dreams of drawing castles, gardens and the sea. Her fellow countryman, Tschaikowsky, is able to paint freely and undisturbed with rich colours an orchestral panorama of life in his fifth symphony. And finally, Beethoven delivers both concert and chamber music in a work with three solo performances.
Heribert Beissel
Sunday 1 July 15:00
Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder)
- Vocal Soloists Rheinsberg Chamber Opera
- Opera gala featuring scenes and arias from works by Mozart to Puccini
- Conductor:
- Heribert Beissel
A visit by the opera singers from Schloss Rheinsberg. Rheinsberg is a breeding ground for operatic talent. Among the young performers, hand-picked in rehearsals and master classes, is sure to be a star of tomorrow. With popular arias and ensembles, the Monastery is turned into an opera stage for the evening
Christian Funke
Sunday 8 July 15:00
Bach Orchestra Gewandhauses Leipzig
- Georg Friedrich Händel:
Water Music Suite in D major HWV 349 - Johann Sebastian Bach:
Concerto for Three Violins in D major BWV 1064 - Johann C. C. Fischer:
Symphony for Eight Timpani and Orchestra - Johann David Heinichen:
Concerto in F for 2 Corni da caccia,Strings and Oboes - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Symphony in C major KV 551 "Jupiter"
- Violins:
- Christian Funke, Julius Bekesch, Matthias Funke
- Timpani:
- Matthias Müller
- Horn:
- Ralf Götz, Jan Wessely
- Coductor:
- Christian Funke
The Bach Orchestra has been playing a reportoire of Baroque music in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig for fifty years. In Chorin it will perform works which range from Handel to Mozart. The popular „Water Music“ was performed three times on the river Thames for the German King of England, George I, Fischer and Heinichen wrote for the Courts in Schwerin and Dresden. „Jupiter“ was Mozart's last symphony and the influence of Bach can be clearly heard in the finale of the work. A program of changing epochs.
Joachim Schäfer
Sunday 15 July 15:00
Trumpet Ensemble Joachim Schäfer
- Concert for Eight Trumpets, Timpani and Basso continuo
- Johann Sebastian Bach:
Cantata BWV 207a - Jeremiah Clarke:
Suite of Ayres in D major - Georg Friedrich Händel:
Excerpts from the "Messiah"
- Conductor:
- Joachim Schäfer
With an exceptional repertoire and spectacular arrangements, the virtuosos from Dresden are one of today's leading wind ensembles. Proof of this is their version of Bach's Huldigungs Cantata for the Elector of Saxony, and Handel's most well-known Oratorio
Saturday 21 July 15:00
Regensburger Domspatzen
- Sacred and secular works from four centuries
- Conductor:
- Cathedral Capellmeister Roland Büchner
The boys' choir from Regensburg on the Danube is known as the " Cathedral Sparrows". Like the sparrow, the young singers fly to many places; Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Hungary, South Africa, Taiwan, and in Rome exclusively for the Pope. In Chorin we are taken on a journey through the world of choral music.
Michael Lessky
Photo: Rita Newman
Sunday 22 July 15:00
Vienna Youth Philharmonic
- Richard Wagner:
Prelude to Opera "Lohengrin" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Piano Concerto Nr. 21 in C major KV 467 - Anton Bruckner:
Symphony Nr. 5 in B flat major
- Piano:
- Paul Gulda
- Conductor:
- Michael Lessky
Bruckner, not possessing Wagner's genius for self-promotion, kept his 5th Symphony in a draw for fifteen years; he never heard it played by an orchestra. Bruckner's masterpiece in the area of counterpoint presents a real challenge, not only for ambitious youth orchestras. The multi-talented Paul Gulda from Vienna performs Mozart's most well-known piano concerto "Andante", popularly known as the music from the film, "Elvira Madigan".
Ramon Jaffé
Saturday 28 July 15:00
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
- Antonín Dvořák:
Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester h-Moll op.104
- Robert Schumann:
Symphony Nr. 3 "Rhenish" in E flat major Op. 97
- Cello:
- Ramon Jaffé
- Conductor:
- Lior Shambadal
Schumann's third symphony was inspired by a trip to the Rhineland with his wife. He incorporated elements of his journey and portrayed other experiences in his life in the music. Dvorak was impressed by his visit to the Niagara Falls, and what emerged was perhaps his finest work and for some the greatest cello concerto ever written . Two works of music between striving for form and interpretation of nature.
Jiri Vodicka
Sunday 29 July 15:00
Prague National Theatre Chamber Orchestra
- Carl Maria von Weber:
Ouverture „Der Freischütz“ - Max Bruch:
Violin Concerto Nr. 1 in G minor Op. 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony Nr. 8 in F major Op. 93
- Violin:
- Jirí Vodicka
- Conductor:
- Jakub Klecker
"Is this the only concerto I have written ?" The popularity of Opus 26 has overshadowed all of Bruch's other works: rich in melody, beautiful in sound and simple in form. Often eclipsed by Beethoven's larger symphonies, the Eighth is a delightful foray into the traditional Classical symphony, infused with Beethoven's unique brand of humour and style. The work was in part a hommage to Haydn and other 18th century composers.
Christoph Soldan
Photo: Theater Doerzbach
Saturday 4 August 15:00
Cappella Istropolitana
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Piano Concerto Nr. 18 B flat major KV 456
Symphony Nr. 40 in G minor KV 550 Piano Concerto Nr. 19 in F minor KV 459 "Second Coronation Concerto"
- Conductor and Piano:
- Christoph Soldan
A Mozart concert with Christoph Soldan and the Bratislava Chamber Orchestra culminates in the darkly coloured 40th Symphony with its famous opening theme. Mozart's Piano Concert Nr. 19 in F major is occasionally known as the "second coronation concerto" on account of Mozart playing on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II in October 1790. Incidentally, Mozart had hoped to be appointed Kapellmeister for Leopold II but to Mozart's disappointment the appointment was given to Antonio Salieri
RSBrass Brass Ensemble
Saturday 11 August 15:00
RSBrass Brass Ensemble
- William Byrd: The Earle Of Oxfords March,
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Sinfoniea “La Bergamasca“,
- Michael Prätorius: Suite of French Dances from "Terpsichore"
- Giovanni Battista Grillo: Canzona Quarta
- Tilman Susato: Suite from "Dancereye"
- Sinem Altan: Keloglan Suite
- Chris Hazel: Kraken
- Jim Parker: A Londoner In New York
- Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cats
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Herb Alpert: RSBrass Latino Brass "Two Oranges in my Hair....."
- Conductor:
- Jörg Lehmann
When the brass players from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra go on a musical journey we can expect to experience a journey with absolutely no borders of musical styles and epochs. The one moment we might be passing through Elizabethan England, the next we find ourselves in Italy during the Renaissance, or Germany during Baroque, or Venetian church music, or a musical based on poems about cats, or Brasilian Bossa Nova.
Iván Fischer
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Saturday 18 August 15:00
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
- Detlev Glanert:
Commissioned work - Johannes Brahms:
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor Op. 102 - Antonin Dvořák: Legende Nr. 10 op. 59, Symphony Nr. 7 in D minor Op. 70
- Violin:
- Julia Fischer
- Cello :
- Daniel Müller-Schott
- Conductor:
- Iván Fischer
After Beethoven's treble now Brahms' double concerto, performed by two of today's younger generation of musical talent. Symphonic Chamber music of great emotional depth – uncommon in an era of virtuosity. In its introspective passages and sincerity, Dvorak is very close to his cherished friend Brahms. It has ,however,passages which are musically wilder and more danceable.
Brandenburg State
Orchestra Frankfurt(Oder)
Photo: Tobias Tanzyna
Saturday 25 August 15:00 and 19:00
Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt(Oder)
- Georg Friedrich Händel:
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351 - Anton Heberle: Concerto in G major for Recorder and Strings and 2 Horns
- Antonio Vivaldi:
Flautino Concerto in C major, RV 443 - William Walton:
“The Spitfire Präludium and Fuge” - Malcom Arnold:
Extracts from „Carnival of Animals“ Op.727 - Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
- Edward Elgar: “Pomp and Circumstance” – March Nr. 1 in D major
- Flute:
- Maurice Steger
- Conductor:
- Howard Griffiths
Once again Howard Griffiths brings the atmosphere of London's Albert Hall Promenade Concerts to Chorin. Sir Henry Wood, founder of the Promenade concerts, orchestrated old English seafaring songs, George Frederic Handel caused the first traffic chaos in London as his Fireworks music was performed in front of an audience of 12,000, and Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March brought the audience to its feet in patriotic fervour. Music from the Island with freedom, pathos and humour.
Marek Janowski
Photo: Felix Broede
Sunday 26 August 15:00
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony Nr. 1 in C major Op. 21, Symphony Nr. 7 in A major Op. 92
- Conductor:
- Marek Janowski
Beethoven's first symphony and his orchestrally sophisticated seventh. His first naturally pays hommage to Haydn and Mozart; although under the surface Beethoven's own musical style is clearly to be heard. The Seventh Symphony's premiere concert was one of Beethoven's most successful concerts. Viennese audiences, miserable from Napoleon's 1805 and 1809 occupations of Vienna and hopefully awaiting a victory over him, embraced the symphony's energy and beauty
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