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2022-03-21 13:48:02
Jan Vogler (Photo Stephan Floss) After two years when the festival operated either online or in mixed mode with smaller-scale live concerts, the Dresden Music Festival is back this year with a large-scale event including several visiting orchestras. From 11 May to 10 June 2022, the festival will be presenting over 60 concerts in and around Dresden celebrating the 45th Dresden Music Festival. The festival's opening concert is the period instrument Dresden Festival Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Mozart's overture to Die Zauberflöte and Symphony No. 40, plus Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' with soloist Jan Liesecki on forte-piano. And the festival orchestra will be closing the festival as well when David Robertson conducts more Beethoven, the Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9 with soloists Martin Helmchen (piano), Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), and René Pape (bass). Two concerts celebrate historical Dresden connections. The Dresden Baroque Orchestra will be […]
2022-03-14 14:15:12
Telemann, two concerts 2022
[…] reviewed in the Chicago Tribune. The good news is that there were many young people in the audience. A very different concert series took place several days later when Herbert Blomstedt came to town. Blomstedt is 94 and looks his age; he suffers from arthritis and walks slowly. Blomstedt conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in three concerts, with Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 17 in the first half and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony in the second. Martin Helmchen was the soloist in the Mozart, and he played well (we’d love to hear him in a recital); Blomstedt held everything together. But of course, the important part came later. The Fourth Symphony is one of Bruckner’s more popular pieces, it’s the one with the famous Scherzo for the third movement. There were some issues in the brass section (is it still the best in the world?) but those were minor. Blomstedt, with his […]
2022-03-12 19:26:00
One of the more heartening developments at Orchestra Hall in recent […]
2022-03-11 18:33:42
One of the more heartening developments at Orchestra Hall in recent […]
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