Author: Andrea Kerner

Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is celebrating one of the most important German artists of the 19th century, poet Heinrich Heine – without any anniversary, without a (half or quarter) round birthday. Ian Bostridge, Compagnia di Punto and the actress Marina Galic juxtapose some of Robert Schumann’s settings of Heine with Büchner’s epochal work Woyzeck, which remains a fragment, and thus open up a broader perspective on the art of the early 19th century.

Founded in 2010, Compagnia di Punto is an ensemble of historical performance practice that plays music from the Baroque to the early Romantic period, in fluid transitions from chamber ensemble to orchestral formation. Accordingly, the ensemble performs this programme on instruments from the early 19th century.

9 February 2024, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
HEINRICH HEINE MEETS GEORG BÜCHNER
R. Schumann: Songs
G. Büchner: Excerpts from Woyzeck
Ian Bostridge, tenor / Marina Galic, actress / Christian Binde, leader / Matthias Schlothfeldt, concept & composition

Sarah Willis has thrilled the international music scene with her favourite project Moart y Mzambo: three highly acclaimed recordings, several invitations to the most renowned concert halls and the founding of her own salsa band, Sarahbanda, are the result of the intensive collaboration between the horn player, the Havana Lyceum Orchestra and its conductor José Antonio Mendez. In February 2024, Sarahbanda will bring Caribbean flair to wintry Europe with European art music, South American compositions and Cuban rhythms! 25 January 2024, Società Filarmonica Trento / 27 January 2024, Schloss Elmau / 29 January 2025, HUK-Coburg / 04 February 2024, Nikolaisaal Potsdam CUBAN DANCES Sarah Willis, horn & musical leader / Yuniet Lombida, saxophone / Jorge Aragón, piano Carlos García, doubble bass / Aylin Pino, violine / Adel González & Alejandro Aguilar, percussion Works based on W. A. Mozart and by Jorge Aragón, Yuniet Lombida, Ernesto Oliva a.o.

For almost ten years, András Schiff has been selecting three talented pianists with special musical personalities each season for his Building Bridges programme to support them on their way to a professional career.

„It is with great pleasure that I can introduce three excellent pianists to you: Julius Asal, Martina Consonni and Tomoki Park.“ (Sir András Schiff) 09 Jan. 2024, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Martina, Consonni / Tomoki Park Works by D. Scaralatti, F. Schubert, R. Schumann, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, J. S. Bach, H. Holliger, K. Balch, I. Yun 25 Jan. 2024, Ehrbar Saal, Wien Julius Asal Works by L. v. Beethoven, B. Bartók, J. Brahms

Dear colleagues & business partners, We bid farewell to the year with concerts by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Phantasm Viol Consort, Il Giardino Armonico and Avi Avital and another opera series by La Folia Barockorchester in Vienna. Before we continue in the new year with Sarah Willis’ Sarahbanda, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the young talents of the Building Bridges series, we would like to wish you all happy holidays and a happy and hopefully peaceful 2024!

Andreas Richter, Andrea Kerner, Julia Larigo, Michael Sauter, Daniela Gast, Ina Holthaus, Capucine Valois & Benjamin Kaiser

Our office will be closed between 23 December 2023 and 2 January 2024.

After the universally delightful first collaboration on the occasion of a series of performances of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie in 2018, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle are coming together again in November to land another baroque opera coup: Charpentier’s opera Médée is on the programme, presented by a truly all-star cast: alongside Magdalena Kožená in the title role are Carolyn Sampson as Créuse and Reinoud Van Mechelen as Jason in a production by Peter Sellars.

19., 23., 25., 30. November, 02. Dezember 2023, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin
21. November 2023, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
27. November 2023, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
MÉDÉE
Magdalena Kožená Médée / Reinoud Van Mechelen Jason / Luca Tittoto Créon Carolyn Sampson Créuse / Jehanne Amzal Cléone / Gyula Orendt Oronte / Markéta Cukrová Nérine, Bellone, Fantome / Gonzalo Quinchahual La Jalousie / Dionysios Avgerinos La Vengance / Staatsopernchor / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Simon Rattle Musical direction / Peter Sellars Staging / Frank Gehry Stage design / Camille Assaf Costume design / James F. Ingalls Lighting / Dani Juris Choir rehearsals / Antonio Cuenca Ruiz, Detlef Giese Dramaturgy

M.-A. Charpentier: Médée. Tragédie mise en musique (1693)

Influenced by its most important mentor in the early years, Claudio Abbado, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) pays the highest value on the careful selection of its artistic partners, with whom it builds long-lasting and sustainable relationships and sometimes realises epoch-making projects. With pianist Jan Lisiecki, an international Beethoven cycle was planned for the Beethoven Year 2020, which had to be cancelled in large parts due to the pandemic. All the greater the anticipation for the upcoming reunion in October! Conductor Andrew Manze is also one of the orchestra’s artistic friends.

22 October 2023, Alte Oper Frankfurt 23 October 2023, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 24 October 2023, Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie Berlin 29 October 2023, Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt AUTUMN TOUR Jan Lisiecki, piano / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Andrew Manze, conductor Works by L. v. Beethoven, W. A. Mozart & F. Chopin

With the oratorio Theodora, first performed in 1750, George Frideric Handel created a contemplative work about religious tolerance, Christian virtues and humanistic values. The world-renowned countertenor and Handel interpreter Bejun Mehta makes his conducting debut at the Theater an der Wien with the La Folia Baroque Orchestra.

Premiere: 19 October 2023, Museumsquartier (Theater an der Wien) Further performances: 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 Oktober 2023 THEODORA Jacquelyn Wagner, Theodora / Christopher Lowrey, Didymus / David Portillo, Septimus / Evan Hughes, Valens / Julie Boulianne, Irene / Stefan Herheim, director / La Folia Barockorchester / Bejun Metha, conductor G. F. Handel: Theodora – Oratorio in three parts Preview: In December 2023, the La Folia Baroque Orchestra will once again be a guest at the Theater an der Wien with Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera”!

Ten years ago, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century brought Mozart’s iconic opera Così fan tutte to international concert halls for the first time. The press cheered at the time: “Absolutely spectacular” (De Volkskrant) and Dagblad Trouw characterised the orchestra as “sublimely playing”. In this production, the opera about the trials and tribulations of the heart is conducted by Manoj Kamps, directed by Lisenka Heijboer Castañón and sung by wonderful soloists: Katharine Dain as Fiordiligi, Josy Santos as Dorabella, Claron McFadden as Despina, Linard Vrielink as Ferrando, Drew Santini as Guglielmo and Henk Neven as Don Alfonso.

06 October 2023, Concertgebouw Brugge (Premiere)
07 October 2023, Oosterpoort Groningen
12 October 2023, Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen – Concertgebouw de Vereeniging
13 October 2023, Amare – Den Haag
14 October 2023, De Doelen Rotterdam
17 October 2023, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam
18 October 2023, Tivoli Vredenburg

The Between Worlds Ensemble, founded by Avi Avital, combines different genres, cultures and musical worlds. At the beginning of October, they will be on tour together again to Antwerp, Ludwigshafen and Essen.The programme combines classical compositions with traditional music to form a coherent overall concept, as if it were quite natural that baroque fantasies, Yiddish melodies or Romanian folk dances should sound side by side.

03 October 2023, De Singel Antwerpen
05 October 2023, BASF-Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen
06 October 2023, Philharmonie Essen
MIXED INSTRUMENT