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„He and the orchestra are a single being.‟ (Stuttgarter Zeitung, 19. Januar 2018)

Since Teodor Currentzis was named Principal Conductor of the SWR Symphonieorchesters in 2018, his goal has been to help this young orchestra achieve a unique artistic identity with moving interpretations and an innovative outreach program. In February 2020, Currentzis and the orchestra will perform together for the first time in the Berlin Philharmonie. The concert was originally scheduled for September 2019, but unfortunately had to be postponed. The program will include Tod und Verklärung by Richard Strauss as well as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

19 February 2019 Philharmonie Berlin  

02 March 2019 KKL Luzern 

R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung op. 24 / G. Mahler: Symphony no. 1 in D Major ›Titan‹

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

A busy and successful 2019 is coming to an end. We and our ensembles were involved in exciting projects in fascinating cities in Europe, Asia, and the Persian Gulf – and we were proud to expand our list of artists with Vox Luminis, one of the most renowned vocal ensembles of our time. Before we take a break for the holidays, we would like to give you a preview of our next projects here.

We would like to thank all artists, colleagues and business partners for the pleasant and trusting cooperation and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Our office will be closed from 23 December to 6 January. For urgent matters, please contact us during this period at info@andreasrichter.berlin.

„With the homage to Gidon Kremer we honor this season one of the greatest violinists of our time.“ (Konzerthaus Berlin)

The homage to Gidon Kremer, which the Konzerthaus Berlin organises  at the end of October, comprises eleven days: concerts for a large orchestra, chamber music, late-night and children’s concerts, presented by a large number of renowned artists, and, of course,  Gidon Kremer with his Kremerata Baltica himself. The repertoire ranges from Bach to Weinberg and shows the broad spectrum of the string orchestra, that Gidon Kremer founded more than 20 years ago.

This year, Kremerata and its artistic director dedicate a large number of their programs to the memory of the Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, whose birthday marks the 100th anniversary in December 2019. Among other things, Gidon Kremer conceived the multimedia project “Chronicles of Current Events”, in which music for the chamber orchestra, chamber music and solo works, as well as film music written by Weinberg, are combined with the video art of Valery Pecheykin, Artyom Firsanov and Daniil Orlov. The world premiere took place during this year’s Holland Festival, followed by performances in Berlin and Hamburg.

The season 2019/20 has started and we do look forward to many exciting concerts and new projects:

• Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna on tour with their Da Ponte Cycle 
• The SWR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Teodor Currentzis  in the Berliner Philharmonie
• The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and Sir András Schiff in Kronberg and Berlin
• Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica in Berlin, Hamburg and Basel
• Special project: Baltic Sea Philharmonic at ARCC

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The Da Ponte cycle of Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna, which was released at Sony Classical between 2014 and 2017, has been one of the cornerstones of the worldwide attention that the ensemble and its still polarizing principal conductor have been receiving for years: “Everyone gives everything: a Don Giovanni for eternity”, Werner Theurich enthused at the time in the German news magazine Spiegel, while Markus Thiel heard more “dressage” as interpretation in the Münchner Merkur. Since then, musicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis have gained a unique reputation in the international classical world in many concerts in the most important halls of Europe with a versatile repertoire, with highly idiosyncratic interpretations, but in any case with a captivating enthusiasm. Now they return with their Da Ponte cycle to the Bremen Music Festival, to the Konzerthaus Vienna and to the LUCERNE FESTIVA, where the visitors can not only look forward to the three operas, but also to an evening with arias from Idomeneo, presented by one of the most famous Mozart interpreters in the world: Cecilia Bartoli.

W.A. Mozart: Così fan tutte KV 588
03 Speptember 2019 Musikfest Bremen / 09 September 2019 Konzerthaus Wien / 15 September 2019 LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Nadezhda Pavlova / Paula Murrihy / Mingjie Lei / Konstantin Suchkov / Anna Kasyan / Konstantin Wolff / Nina Vorobyova, direction /Svetlana Grischenkova, costumes / Alexey Khoroshev, lightdesign
LUCERNE FESTIVAL:  Cecilia Bartoli / Konstantin Suchkov

W.A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro KV 492
05 September 2019 Konzerthaus Wien (Saisoneröffnung) / 12 September 2019 LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Andrei Bondarenko / Ekaterina Scherbachenko / Olga Kulchynska / Alex Esposito / Paula Murrihy / Daria Telyatnikova / Krystian Adam / Danis Khuzin / Evgeny Stavinsky / Garry Agadzhanyan / Fanie Antonelou / Nina Vorobyova, direction / Svetlana Grischenkova, costumes / Alexey Khoroshev, lightdesign

W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni KV 527
07 September 2019 Konzerthaus Wien / 14 September 2019 LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Dimitris Tiliakos / Nadezhda Pavlova / Kenneth Tarver / Federica Lombardi / Kyle Ketelsen / Robert Lloyd / Ruben Drole / Christina Gansch / Nina Vorobyova, direction / Svetlana Grischenkova, costumes / Alexey Khoroshev, lightdesign

Commissioned productions for period instruments, new interpretations of traditional repertoires, innovative working methods, dramaturgically sophisticated concepts that attract a diverse audience – Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) offers all of this and has been one of the musical greats in the cultural life of the Nordic countries for 30 years.

The “Dancing Queen” program presented at the festival in Herrenchiemsee musically illustrates the life of the Swedish queen Christine (1626 – 1689) as a monarch, but above all as a music lover and generous patron. The dramaturgical range spans from a coronation motet and French ballet music  to the musical framing of courtly celebrations, a sinfonia by Antonio Cesti to her Catholic baptism to works by Scarlatti and Corelli, both of which were sponsored by the monarch.

In August 2019, FiBO presents “From Russia with Love” at the Brühl Castle Concerts. The program traces the intense musical relationship between Russia and Western Europe in the 18th century. Czarina Catherine the Great did her utmost to promote the arts in the still-new Saint Petersburg Residence and invited numerous Italian composers to the court, among them some of the greatest composers of her time, Giovanni Pasiello, Domenico Cimarosa and Baldasare Galuppi. On the occasion of a European trip, the czarina on Christmas day in 1781 attended the premiere of Haydn’s String Quartet op. 33 at the Vienna Court – a work that is indispensable in this context, even at a summer festival.

21st July 2019 Herrenchiemsee Festspiele

“Dancing Queen” works by  A. Scarlatti, A. Corelli, G. Düben, J. H. Schmelzer, C. Gesualdo, V. Albrici, A. Cesti and others, Kajsa Dahlbäck, soprano / Olga Heikkilä, soprano / Katariina Heikkilä, alto / Jukka Jokitalo, tenor / Juha-Pekka Mitjonen, bass

19th August 2019 Brühler Schlosskonzerte

“From Russia with Love”  works by G. Pasiello, D. Cimarosa, J. Haydn and B. Galuppi: Concerto a Quattro, Irma Niskanen, violist & conductor / Petteri Pitko, harpsichord

The Summer of Music 2019 takes us beyond Europe’s borders:

 „Il Giardino Armonico performed Joseph Haydn’s score with a lot of plasticity and empathy“, judged the Wiener Zeitung about the interpretation of Joseph Haydn’s Creation by  Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. After successful performances in Munich, Augsburg and Vienna the production will be performed at the Soli Deo Gloria Festival and the  Rheingau Music Festival at the end of June. 

Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica commemorate the 100th birthday of Mieczylaw Weinberg with a premiere at the Holland Festival.

After their successful German debut last February the Aga Khan Music Initiative presents the program „New Music from both ends of the Silk Route“ at the Mosel Music Festival.

Beethoven-Expertise:  Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and Rudolf Buchbinder present Beethoven’s piano concertos 1 and 5 at the Bremen Music Festival.

Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) tours with its program “From Russia With Love” and “Dancing Queen”

La Folia Barockorchester Dresden dedicates a thematic focus to the arias of  Georg Friedrich Händel.

Näheres zu den Projekten finden Sie hier.

„The interesting thing is that with »The Creation« the classic Haydn composed a pioneering piece.“ (Giovanni Antonini)

Since 2014, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico have been exploring the symphonic work of Joseph Haydn as part of the Haydn2032 project. This intense commitment has led the orchestra and the conductor to Haydn’s most important vocal work, in which the Austrian composer consciously breaks with the Italian oratorio tradition and assigns the chorus a much more prominent role, thus establishing the choral oratorio as an independent special form of the genre. The success of The Creation was unprecedented since its premiere in Vienna in 1798. The work was the occasion for the founding of new choir associations, as well as music institutes, and helped to develop an independent German oratory school. With the engagement of Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt, Florian Boesch and the Bavarian Radio Chorus, Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble are supported by congenial partners.

May 10th + 11th, 2019 Herkulessaal der Residenz, Munich / May 13th, 2019 Mozart Festival Augsburg / May 14th, 2019 Vienna Concert Hall / June 23rd, 2019 Soli Deo Gloria – Braunschweig Festival / June 28 th, 2019 Rheingau Music Festival

Livestreams and broadcastings

May 14th, 2019, 07.15 p.m. Takt1 (Live-Stream at Konzerthaus Wien)

June 5th, 2019, 08.05 p.m. BR-Klassik (Recording May 11th, 2019 from Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz)

June 06th, 2019  Ö1 (Recording May 14th, 2019 from Konzerthaus Wien)

Joseph Haydn: »The Creation« Hob. XXI: 2

Giovanni Antonini, conductor / Anna Lucia Richter, soprano / Maximilian Schmitt, tenor / Florian Boesch, bass baritone / Chorus of the Bayerischer Rundfunk

After the outstanding concert in January, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) will return to the Berlin Philharmonic for its second performance in the series In memoriam Claudio Abbado in March. As an Orchestra in Residence, the COE is then a guest at the Klarafestival.

• With René Jacobs, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra will travel to Asia and Bahrain in early April to present semi-staged performances of Don Giovanni.
• Under the direction of Teodor Currentzis, the musicAeterna Chorus and Orchestra of Perm Opera will perform Verdi’s legendary Requiem throughout Europe, including the venue of its premiere in Milan.
• Two more epochal works of European music history are on the spring program: Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno di Ulisse with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Haydn’s »The Creation« that will be performed by the Haydn specialist Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico.

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