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Welcome in 2024 ...
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Welcome to the upcoming new season!
I would like us - even in a world shaken by wars, terror, human suffering and human stupidity-
to succeed together with creativity and courage
- and a view of what is always and everywhere possible -
to prepare the ground for art and culture - even if it can sometimes be exhausting ...
Art and culture can't do everything in life, but without them
a many few things would be nothing...
Cordially
your's
23.8.2024
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ROBERTO PROSSEDADA
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Roberto Prosseda is now released by Challenge Classics:
By recording 3 Piano Sonatas Op. 2 by Beethoven on his restaured original Graf fortepiano from 1820, Prosseda has started his next big project - piano music by Beethoven on the fortepiano!
The album will be released on October 4th by Challenge Classics
In May, the last album of
Prosseda's complete recording of all of
Mozart's piano works has been released with the Rondos,
Suites,
Minuets and and small piano pieces, thus completing.
his Mozart edition,
which also includes all the sonatas and variations.
The release of another new CD, presenting piano concertos by contemporary
Italian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries he
recorded with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra is announced for automn.
In
addition, the worldwide renowed Pedal Piano specialist, is looking forward to
perforn concerts on the new Pedal Piano built
by Chris Maene.
With the new instrument from the Belgian piano maker, who is also known
for the so-called Barenboim grand piano, the 'straight-strung' grand piano, it will
be much
easier and also more economical to present the rarely heard spectacular
instrument
in concert!
Prosseda's concert calendar ifor 24/25 will include recitals
and concerts from his Mozart repertoire, but
also modern and
contemporary music as piano concertos f.e. by Schoenberg (150th birthday in 2024) and Dallapiccola (50th
death anniversary in 2025
His schedule will be completed by concerts and recitasl with his longtime DUO partner, Italian pianist Alessandra Ammara.
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LUCA LOMBARDI
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Lombardi's composition "Novembernacht" (November Night), a work
commissioned by the Piano Festival Ruhr,
had a highly acclaimed premiere in the frame of the festival in Bochum on June 27, 2023.
Sir Andras Schiff,
for whom Lombardi wrote his composition and to whom it is dedicated,
gave a magnificent premiere performance.
Now, Lombardi is working again on his opera project "Ohra - A Woman on
the Run from a Message" (based on the novel of the same name by David
Grossmann), which he had to put on hold for a while because of other
composition commissions.
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JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE
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There is a new fascinating program: MusicaloPithèque :
Instruments and Music from the Stone Age to present time.
From flutes made from mammoth teeth or eagle bones, carved and played by Neanderthals 4000 years ago, to the three-necked guitar of today.
Played live and moderated by Lemêtre!
The musical range and
intercultural creative work of a great artist over more than half a
century can now be experienced on Lemêtre's website
and
The whole range of his music,
which
extends far beyond theater or movie music is revealed in a series of videos on Lemêtre's recently launched YouTube
channel "Nomade de la Planète Bleue" - have a look!
To Lemêtres most important
concerns, however, belong his many workshops,
master
classes, seminars and international
conferences, in which he spreads his knowledges and his
large collection of original instruments
gathered from all over the world to pave the way for future generations in the countries of
origin, where some instruments and musical traditions have already been
forgotten or lost, to experience making music with them again.
And he wants to pass on his artistic
experience and knowledge to students, professional stage
artists and interested amateurs within the framework of international workshops, for whose subject matter and
orientation he uses the term "Le Corps
Musical", with which he centers upon the the body as
an instrument of scenic expression.
Workshops
and seminars can also be booked through ART
WORKs.
He continues to write music for theater, dance , festivals and Tv and
movies.
Just
now he's focusing on concerts with Live -Music
for silent films.
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GÜNTER
A. BUCHWALD
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Before after more than 30 years our collaboration with
Günter A. Buchwald will come to its end with the closing of this seaon, we are happy upon a special highlight:
the silent film concert "Jewish
Luck", a comedy based on a novel by Sholem Alechem, with
which
the Jewish Culture Days and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg made a
courageous
statement for humanity in the face of the terrible conflict in the
Middle
East - acclaimed by a sold-out hall with long applaudings.
Buchwald and Klezmer clarinettist Helmut Eisel
performed "Fantasy for Jewish Luck",
the score Buchwald composed for the film.
And before our ways will part for good, we hope for a few more film
concerts with Jewish Luck.
The next will take place on Sept 3, 24 in the frame of the Jewish Film-Days in Frankfurt.
And perhaps, some long-planned film concerts with Buchwald's music for the French-Russian
silent film "Casanova" will get realized.
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BETTY OLIVERO
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Olivero's current commissions
include a work for the Boulez Ensemble,
upon which she is working on behalf of Daniel
Barenboim.
In
2023, her composition "Many Waters"
commissioned by the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Konzerthaus
Dortmund opened
the season in Dortmund with the Isreal Philharmonics under the direction of Lahav Shani
and was also performed at the Philharmonie Berlin as part of the Musikfest
Berlin.
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Our last cooperation with
Shlomo Mintz for his performance of the Violin Concerto by Dvorak with Würth Philharmonics was
received with enthusiasm by press and audience:
"If the audience is already thrilled by this
interpretation of Dvorak, it is downright ravished by Shlomo Mintz's
highly virtuosic encore - the Paganini Caprice No. 24."
We're happy, that this cooperation with
Schlomo Mintz, which ended with the beginning of season 23/24 has been
emphasized with this beautiful final event.
Bye, bye Maestro and thank you for
the beautiful moments with your music...
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