After her succes at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Debora Waldman and her Orchestra Idomeneo treated the audience of the Festival de Sully et du Loiret on May 20th to the programme « Pure Mozart ».
And then, in June : a set of concerts at the Rouen Opera (Normandy, France) and an appearance at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre Demos.
In April, the Orchestre d’Auvergne with its Musical Director Roberto Fores Veses flied off to Brazil for the residence at the Salla Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro. They brought three ambitious programmes, starring young Brazilian talents :
Programme n° 1
BACH : Contrapunctus XIV for strings from the Art of the Fugue (arr. Kalevi Aho)
RIPPER : Concertinofor alto and strings – Gabriel Marin, alto
BERG : Lyric suite (arr. Theo Verbey)
Programme n° 2
CORIGLIANO : Voyage
MOZART : Concerto for piano and orchestra n° 14 en E-flat Majeur KV 449 – Pablo Rossi, piano
DEBUSSY : Quartet for strings Opus 10 : Andantino (arr. Lucas Drew)
TOLDRA : Vistas al mar
STRAVINSKY : Concerto in D for strings
Programme n° 3
KLARTAG : Con forza di gravità
NORDIN : Inverted mantra for string orchestra
VIVIER : Zipangu
BRAHMS : Quintet for strings n° 2 in G Major Opus 111
The Otakar Kraus Music Trust charity concert of 18th of June, delivered by Paradisal Players and conducted by Samuel Burstin, raised £5000.
The Otakar Kraus Music Trust, set up in 1991, provides music therapy for people of all ages who have physical, psychological, learning, behavioural or emotional difficulties.
Bravo Sam and all participants !
Robert Trevino makes his Vienna debut with the Wiener Symphoniker on June 20th and 21st at the Wiener Konzerthaus withAlice Sara Ott performing Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2, the rest of the program is Tchaikovsky’s « Tempest » and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.
They then go on tour to Turkey for the annual Istanbul International Music Festival, where they will perform in Istanbul and Izmir on June 23 & 24.
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Lio Kuokman was invited by the Ural State Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct, on June 17th 2016 at the Ekaterinburg Philharmonic, a very beautiful programme :
Brahms : Symphony n°1
Debussy : Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Elgar : Enigma Variations n°12
On Thursday 16th of June 2016, Andris Poga will conduct the Orchestre National de France and Fazil Say in an awesome programme which also includes Fazil Say’s composition « Water ».
The programme of the evening :
Alfred Schnittke:(K)ein Sommernachtstraum
Fazil Say: Water for piano et orchestra (French premiere)
Olivier Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonie n° 1
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Anton Batagov, a Russian composer, post-minimalist, whom the conductor Vladimir Jurovsky commissioned to compose a new work for the Evgeny Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, wrote a new vocal cycle on the John Donnes’ poetry titled « I Fear No More ».
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After Mihhail Gerts’ success in Japan with two famous orchestras: NHK Symphony and Osaka Philharmonic, he steps onto Russian soil at the Vladimir Spivakov Festival in Omsk (June 2nd) and in Perm (June 5th) where he conducts the programme:
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto n°2 (with Vladimir Spivakov as soloist)
Korngold: Sinfonietta opus 5
Congratulations, Mihhail !
Rossen Gergov made a wonderful European tour in April, from Norway to Bulgarie.
01/04/2016 Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Norway
Nils Henrik Asheim: Vindskulpturer (premiere) for sheng and orchestra (soloist: Wu Wei)
Jon Leifs: Organ Concerto (1930) (soloist: Björn Steinar Solbergsson)
Franz Liszt: Variations over “Ad Nos” (1850) arr. for organ and orchestra by Marcel Dupré (soloist: Christian Schmitt)
8/04/2016 Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Symphony in D, KV 385 (Haffner)
Haydn: Trumpet concerto (soloist: Peter Makedonski)
Beethoven: Symphony No.1
22/04/2016 Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No.3
25/04/2016 Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany
Beethoven: Symphony No.9
Debora Waldman appeared at the prestigious Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris where she conducted on March 20th the Orchestre Lamoureux in the exceptional programme : Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto n°1 and Orff’s « Carmina Burana ».
She shared the stage with Camille Thomas (cello), Valerie Yeng-Seng (soprano), Mathieu Septier (tenor), Christian Helmer (baritone) and four choirs :
Chœur Lamoureux – Patrick Marco Direction
Chœur Air France – Anne Laffilhe Direction
Chœur des Universités de Grenoble – Anne Laffilhe Direction
Chœurs des collèges parisiens Jean-Baptiste Say, Buffon, Charles Péguy et Lamartine.
