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Peter Oundjian is with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France this week for two concerts on May 15 and 16. The programme includes Brahms Symphony No.3 and Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 with Richard Goode.
Valeriy Sokolov makes his debut at Wigmore Hall on Tuesday 13 May performing Bach's Chaconne, Beethoven's F Major Romance, Schumann's Kreisler Fantasy, Enescu's Sonata No.3 and Prokofiev's Sonata No.2 with French pianist Eric Ferrand N'Kaoua.
The London Symphony Orchestra welcomes Janine Jansen this week for a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Gianandrea Noseda on May 15. She then travels to Amsterdam to join the Amsterdam Sinfonietta for their anniversary concert on May 17.
Stefan Asbury conducts the Klangforum Wien in Wolfgang Rihm's chamber opera Jakob Lenz. Performances take place on 17, 19, 20 and 22 May at the MuseumsQuartier. Frank Castdorf directs the production, with lead singers being Georg Nigl, Wolfgang Bankl and Volker Vogel.
Klangforum Wien >>
Pekka Kuusisto joins the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and conductor Justin Brown to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto on 16 and 17 May.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra >>
Stephen Hough plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.2 under Stefan Sanderling in Tampa on 17 and 18 May.
Martin Grubinger can be heard in performances of the orchestral version of Bartok's famous Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion. He and the Tonkünstler Orchesra will tour this programme from Vienna Musikverein to Grafenegg, St. Pölten and once again Vienna between 17 and 20 May.
Tonkünstler Orchesra >>
Eivind Aadland conducts the Orchestre National de Belgique this weekend with two concerts in Roeselare and Brussels. The programme will include Mozart's Overture from "Le Nozze di Figaro” , followed by his Concerto for Flute and Harp with soloists Annie Lavoisier and Baudoin Giaux, and finishing with Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
Orchestre National de Belgique >>
Osmo Vänskä returns to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra with the programme including the Third Symphony of Jean Sibelius, Aaron Copland’s jazz-infused Clarinet Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s first great ballet, Swan Lake. Concerts will take place on 15, 16 and 17 May at Severance Hall.
The Cleveland Orchestra >>
We're looking for a highly efficient and experienced person to administer all the practical details, schedules and logistics for the engagements of a number of our busy artists, and provide PA support to two of our Directors.
Based at our London office, the role requires excellent organisational skills, together with solid PA and/or administrative experience within the classical music industry. Liaising directly with both artists and promoters around the world, you will also need excellent communication skills. A second European language would be an advantage.
For full details and an application pack please email Richard Bealing. (No CVs please)
In this Year of the Rat with its propitious reputation for the launch of new enterprises, the auguries seem good for the success of HarrisonParrott’s new office in Shanghai, where our new colleague Ying Li will consolidate and expand our work in China.
HP was one of the first agencies to understand the importance of China for the future of classical music – Jasper Parrott developed with BBC TV a project in Shanghai with Vladimir Ashkenazy in 1979 which resulted in the film Music after Mao – and since the late 90s we have steadily built up our contacts and relationships there.
In 1998 we arranged The Cleveland Orchestra’s hugely successful first visit to Beijing and Shanghai (no Grand Theatre then – the concert was in a gymnasium!) and since then the Czech Philharmonic, Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, and many of our artists have appeared with increasing frequency under our aegis in China. One memorable groundbreaking project was the first ever presentation of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (by Philip Pickett and the New London Consort in a production devised by Sir Jonathan Miller) before a packed and enthralled audience at the Beijing Music Festival in 2006.
The view from HP's Shanghai office window
HP’s programme for the future includes orchestral tours, artists and special projects as we build on our collaboration with the presenting halls and orchestras – not only in Beijing and Shanghai but in other major cities where magnificent new facilities are being built to develop the cultural life of their communities.
From an artist management perspective we are proud to represent conductor Xian Zhang with her rapidly accelerating international career, and are pleased to announce that Lan Shui has recently joined our list for general management.
In addition to expanding HP artists’s involvement in the rapidly developing world of opportunity in China, we expect to work very closely with Chinese presenters, helping to develop programming specific to the interests of their own audiences. And as part of our business in China we will offer consultancy services to Western and Japanese orchestras and performing arts organisations about how to make the most out of performing in China, including marketing and public relations.
Enquiries should be addressed to china@harrisonparrott.co.uk
Harrison/Parrott Ltd （China Office)
Unit 1235, 12/F, No. 288 Chong Hing Finance Center,
Nan Jing Road (W)
Shanghai, 200003
CHINA
Tel. +86 21 61337907
We are delighted to announce that, from the start of 2009/10, Eivind Gullberg Jensen will become Chief Conductor of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hannover, and will conduct the orchestra for 12 weeks per season.
He is currently in rehearsals for Fidelio with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, which he will conduct in Madrid and Baden-Baden in May 2008. Other highlights include his debuts with Zurich Tonhalle, English National Opera (Jenufa in February 2009), Oslo Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, WDR Cologne and Sydney Symphony: over the next few seasons he will make return visits to Munich Philharmonic, Hessischer Rundfunk, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, SWR Freiburg/Baden-Baden and Zurich Opera (Martinu Greek Passion).
We are delighted to announce that the Jerusalem Quartet have won the Chamber category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards>> for their recording of Shostakovich Quartet Nos 6, 8 and 11 on Harmonia Mundi. The illustrious jury said of the disc that it was 'challenging, unpredictable Shostakovich which always convinces even when the approach is new. The Jerusalem Quartet’s tonal range is daunting too'. This prestigious recognition comes as we await the release of the quartet’s latest Harmonia Mundi recording - Schubert’s celebrated Death and the Maiden Quartet and the Quartettsatz in C minor.
We've just printed our Spring 2008 newsletter, and a selection of articles - including artist features and touring news - are now online, with details below.
Eivind Gullberg Jensen: An upbeat conductor >>
Susanna Mälkki in 2008: A special year >>
Peter Eötvös's firsts in 2008 >>
HP Consultancy >>
Touring Retrospective >>
Sakari Oramo and the CBSO - 10th Anniversary Tour >>
Sol Gabetta is hailed as one of classical music's greatest talents. Born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981 she first played the cello when she was four, and has never looked back since.
Among her numerous awards are the Natalia Gutmann Award for best musical interpretation in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Credit Suisse Group Young Artist Award, the 2007 Echo Klassik Award and a Grammy nomination for her recording of Vivaldi concertos. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung has described Sol's performance as "powerfully intoxicating; with her instrument she seems to be deeply bonded."
Renowned for his innovative programming, and inspirational ideas, we are delighted to take on the European representation of Peter Oundjian. He is Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor Caramoor International Music Festival. Upcoming highlights include the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle, and L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
We are delighted to announce the signing of Sayaka Shoji for general management.
First prizewinner at the 1999 Paganini Competition, Sayaka has worked with conductors including Ashkenazy, Dutoit, Sawallisch, Chailly, Maazel, Pappano, Jansons and Mehta. She enjoys a close musical relationship with Yuri Temirkanov, with whom she has toured with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony.
Sayaka Shoji has appeared recently at the Salzburg Easter Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic/Jansons, at the Isaac Stern Memorial Concert with the Israel Philharmonic/Mehta and on tour to Asia with the London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis. She made her New York debut with the New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel in 2004. Highlights in 2008 include a return to the London Symphony with Temirkanov, her debut with the Cincinnati Orchestra/Paavo Järvi and a re-invitation to Salle Pleyel to perform with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Myung-Whun Chung.
Sayaka records for DG Universal.
We are delighted to announce the signing of Chinese-American conductor Lan Shui for general management. Lan Shui has been Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1997, and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra from the 2007/08 season.
Under Lan Shui’s direction, the Singapore Symphony has become a world class ensemble and enjoys an exclusive recording contract with the BIS label. Shui has led the orchestra on several acclaimed international tours.
A popular guest conductor world-wide, upcoming highlights include engagements with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Bamberg Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Danish Royal Opera and a return to the Aspen Festival.
HarrisonParrott are pleased to announce our general management for French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet with immediate effect. Characterised by critics and audiences as mercurial, elegant, dynamic and poetic, Bavouzet performs worldwide with leading international orchestras.
Upcoming dates include an appearance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Pierre Boulez this summer, a Wigmore Hall recital in March and a recital within the International Piano Series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in October 2008. He will perform the complete Beethoven Sonatas in the Great Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing in four installments throughout the 2008/09 season.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos, and is currently midway through a recording project of Debussy’s Complete Works for Solo Piano. The second instalment, which has just been released, was the Editor’s Choice in the January issue of Gramophone magazine, as well as Disc of the Month in the Classic FM magazine.
The 30-year old Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado is already making a telling impression in many European concert halls and theatres - and is set to do the same on the other side of the Atlantic when he makes his Carnegie Hall debut this June. Winner of last year's Lucerne Festival conductors' competition, his studies with mentors including Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös have led them personally to recommend him for engagements with the Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris and RSO Wien at Wien Modern; while Sylvain Cambreling - with whom he is currently working at Paris Opera - has also proposed him for future projects with Klangforum Wien and SWR Freiburg. Pablo makes his own full Bastille debut this Autumn in a new Dupin ballet, Les enfants du Paradis; and is invited by Gerard Mortier for a series of productions at New York City Opera from 2009/10.
At the same time, studies with e.g. Harry Christophers and Christopher Hogwood form a backdrop to Pablo's equally compelling work in historically informed performance of baroque and classical repertoire - including with his own chamber opera company, La Compańķa Teatro del Prķncipe , which specialises in performing this literature on original instruments. He has also been Principal Conductor of the Girona City Orchestra and has earned considerable experience with many of the other Spanish orchestras and ensembles - he will conduct a Bruckner/Messiaen programme at this year's Granada Festival. He is now developing his reputation further afield in Europe, including forthcoming guest conducting engagements with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Bordeaux Orchestra, Metropolitan Orchestra Lisbon (where he is a regular guest) and Orchestre National d'Ile de France - as well as re-invitations with Bordeaux Opera and Teatro Real Madrid.
Acclaimed in recent years as one of Europe's leading concertmasters Radoslaw Szulc's conducting career is now beginning to flourish. Having held this position long-term with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, while sought after regularly by orchestras including the London Symphony and Philharmonia, he has had the support of, and studies with, Sir Colin Davis and Riccardo Muti; and several years of intensive study with Leopold Hager in Vienna. Radoslaw founded and leads the Bayersicher Rundfunk Chamber Orchestra, with whom several of Europe's most respected soloists, including Hélčne Grimaud and Lars Vogt, are keen to play and record. He also founded and conducts his own Camerata Europeana, based in Stuttgart. Last year he jumped in at very short notice with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Bruckner's Symphony No.4 which was hailed by the press as "not so much a loss as an extraordinary revelation" - and was immediately re-invited for his 'own' conducting programme later in the year.
Engagements in the first part of this year include concerts with the Liege Philharmonic, Orchestra of St Gallen, and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra - all of which reflect the uniquely informed but fresh perspective he brings so effectively to bear in a very broad mix of programmes. This "musicians' musician" is the most inspiring of communicators, with players and public alike.
Osmo Vänskä has been nominated in the Best Classical Performance Category of next year's Grammy Awards. The Minnesota Orchestra, where Maestro Vänskä is Music Director, share this nomination for their recording of Beethoven Symphony No.9 with BIS Records.
Grammy Awards 2008>>
HarrisonParrott is pleased to announce the signing of young Polish conductor, Krzysztof Urbański.
Krzysztof Urbański(25), who was the unanimous First Prize Winner of the Prague Spring International Conducting Competition in May 2007 (broadcast on the Sat1 channel), is currently Assistant Conductor at the Warsaw Philharmonic, where he conducts several subscription concerts each season.
Krzysztof works regularly with all the other major Polish Orchestras, including the Sinfonia Varsovia, National Polish Radio Symphony and the Poznan Philharmonic, and has enjoyed successful debuts recently with the Prague Radio Symphony and the Ukrainian National Opera. He appeared this past summer at the Karlshamn Baltic Festival in Sweden, and upcoming highlights include concerts with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart and the Prague Philharmonia at the 2008 Prague Spring Festival, as well as performances at the Central European Music Festival and with the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Cordoba Orchestra.
Further information can be found at www.krzysztofurbanski.com
The winners of the 2008 MIDEM Classical Awards were announced during the record industry’s annual trade fair in Cannes recently. David Zinman was named MCA Artist of the Year for his work with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard won the Best Classical Download category for DG Concerts release of two Mozart Piano Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe from the Styriarte Graz. Meanwhile, Lisa Batiashvili, Sakari Oramo, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra picked up the Best Concerto award for their recent SonyBMG release of the Sibelius and Lindberg Violin Concertos.
The Midem Classical Awards were voted on by an international jury drawn from magazines (Gramophone and Gramophone China included), radio stations, websites and arts management companies.
We are delighted to announce that Kirill Karabits has been appointed as the new Principal Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from the 2009/10 season. Karabits, who has been hailed for his extraordinary combination of passion and finesse that he brings to his music making, will be Principal Conductor Designate for the 2008 season, when he’ll spend a minimum period of three weeks with the orchestra. Once in his post he’ll be working with the BSO for at least nine weeks per year.
Michael Henson, Managing Director of the orchestra commented on the appointment:
“We’re delighted that the orchestra has secured such an exciting musical talent as Kirill. The orchestra was very much drawn to his innate musicality and we became convinced that a major partnership would develop over the next five to six seasons. We have been tracking Kirill’s conducting for some time and we are seeing the beginnings of a major career which the BSO are thrilled to be part of.”
30 year old Kirill Karabits becomes the first Ukrainian to hold a titled position with a British orchestra.
HarrisonParrott artists made an extremely strong showing at the 2007 Echo Klassik Music Awards in Germany, and we're thrilled that six of our artists took home awards.
Maurizio Pollini was Instrumentalist of the Year – Piano, winning with his recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nr.17 and Nr. 21 with the Vienna Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music).
Sharing the Concerto Recording of the Year – 20/21st century repertoire – was Leila Josefowicz and Sakari Oramo, who along with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, won for their recording of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1.
Janine Jansen was the winner in the Concerto Recording of the Year, 19th century repertoire section, with her Decca/Universal recording of Mendelssohn and Bruch’s Violin concertos and Bruch’s Romance, also featuring The Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly.
Trumpeter Alison Balsom took away the Newcomer of the Year, Instrumental, for her recent album Caprice (EMI).
And finishing off HarrisonParrott’s sweep of award winners, Christian Tetzlaff won the Solo Recording of the Year - 17th/18th century repertoire – for his J. S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas (Hänssler)
The Deutsche Phono-Akademie, the cultural institution of German recording businesses, awards the ECHO Klassik to distinguished recordings chosen from over 3000 new releases of the previous year. The glamorous ceremony took place on Sunday, October 21 at the Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, and was broadcast the same evening as 'Gala der Stars' in German Television ZDF.
HarrisonParrott is thrilled to announce that Edo de Waart will take over as Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of The Santa Fe Opera, beginning October 2007. Following a long history with the company, which began in 1971, he is delighted that this relationship will continue. He looks forward to his first performances in summer 2008, where he will be conducting Billy Budd, by Benjamin Britten. Please visit The Santa Fe Opera>> for the full press release.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard is Artistic Director of Southbank Centre's festival celebrating the centenary of Olivier Messiaen: 'From the Canyons to the Stars'. Extending throughout the calendar year, and culminating in a performance on the 100th birthday itself - 10 December 2008 - this unprecedented sequence of concerts and related cultural and educational events explores every aspect of the multi-layered significance of the great French composer's work.
The Philharmonia Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano, Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Eötvös and George Benjamin present an ambitious array of the orchestral pieces - as do the Ensemble InterContemporain, invited from Paris for two separate programmes in the festival, conducted respectively by Susanna Mälkki and Pierre Boulez. The students of the Royal Academy of Music play a central role in presenting orchestral, chamber and solo works; while London's churches and cathedrals provide a spectacular setting for performances of Messiaen's organ music. Additional guests of the festival include Olivier Latry, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen; the Nash Ensemble; and Mitsuko Uchida with musicians of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.
For full details visit the Messiaen Festival website >>
Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo as been announced as the Birmingham Post’s Cultural Figure of the Year 2008.
Oramo, who after ten years as Music Director will be stepping down at the end of the season, was delighted to accept his new title,
“It is honour to receive such an award, especially as it was the people of Birmingham who decided. To know that my work with the CBSO is so highly regarded in the city is truly wonderful.”
The Birmingham Post Awards were held at the Anniversary Gala at the Great Hall of the University of Birmingham to celebrate 150 years of the newspaper with David Cameron as keynote guest speaker. After an initial shortlist drawn up by the Post’s journalists and columnists it was Post readers who voted for the winner.
Sakari’s reputation has grown since his appointment with the orchestra in 1998 and he is an established major international artist. During his time in Birmingham he has been responsible for a number of groundbreaking concerts and has been warmly received by the city’s concertgoers for his contribution to its musical life. This was recognised in 2004 with two honorary doctorates, from the University of Birmingham and University of Central England.
Yakov Kreizberg and Dr Claudia Schmied
At an award ceremony in Vienna on October 16, conductor Yakov Kreizberg received the Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Medal of Honour in Arts and Sciences) from the Republic of Austria. The decoration is the highest honour granted by the Republic of Austria for scientific or artistic achievements, acknowledging recognition of particularly outstanding creative achievement in the receiver's field of work, and recipients in recent years include Carlos Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan and Placido Domingo.
The award was presented by the Austrian cultural minister Dr Claudia Schmied, and introduced by Peter-Sylvester Lehner and Florian Zwiauer, respectively Chief Executive and First Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Mr Kreizberg has been the orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor since 2003, and has led the orchestra in many high profile concerts and tours. On 20th October Mr Kreizberg and the orchestra officially re-open the Theater in der Josefstadt, following its extensive renovation, with Beethoven's Overture 'The Consecration of the House', a work composed for the theatre's first re-opening in 1822.
Lawrence Foster has been announced as the new Music Director of Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier from the 2009/10 season.
In December 2007, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in two outstanding performances at the Athens Concert Hall. Joined by a Swedish soloist, Martin Fröst, in one programme and a Greek soloist, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, in the second, they performed an appropriately Nordic programme with Sibelius's second and fifth symphonies, Nielsen's clarinet concerto and Grieg's piano concerto.
Also in December, and on a completely different scale, Andreas Scholl joined forces once again with the Accademia Bizantina for performances of cantatas by Handel in Lisbon and Oporto's fine concert halls.
January gets 2008 off to an exceptionally busy start for HarrisonParrott's Tours and Projects. Marking the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union, Rossen Milanov and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra performed in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain with mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova. Their popular operatic programme included works by Gluck, Rossini and Bizet.
On the other side of the world, Sir Roger Norrington and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart undertake a ten-concert tour of Japan in the guise of the Toshiba Grand Concert. As well as three performances at Tokyo's Suntory Hall, their tour will also take them to Osaka and Hiroshima. They are joined by acclaimed violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Yu Kosuge in a programme of Brahms and Beethoven with an English touch in the form of overtures by Sullivan and Vaughan-Williams.
In a somewhat contrasting style, meanwhile, Japan come to Europe as Kodo, the master drummers of Japan, undertake a nine concert tour of the UK and Ireland including much anticipated performances at the Royal Festival Hall, London; Birmingham's Symphony Hall and the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
In February, we bring Accademia Bizantina to London's Barbican Centre, under the direction of Ottavio Dantone to perform Vivaldi's opera Tito Manlio which they recorded to such great critical success for Naive.
Also in February,
Alongside the success of her latest Bach chamber music release Janine Jansen’s previous album continues to shine. In December her recording of the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concertos with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Ricardo Chailly (Decca) is featured in the prestigious New York Times Best Classical CDs of 2007.
"...the clarity and precision Janine Jansen brings to the war-horse concertos gives them a fresh patina that is hard to resist. So does her approach to the slow movements: singing and sweet-toned but free of sentimentality. Bruch’s Romance, a rarity, shows Ms. Jansen to be a supple violist as well."
Allan Kozinn
The list includes 25 of the most notable recordings from 2007.
The New York Times List>>
Kwamé Ryan will continue his tour within the Folles Journées in Japan with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine this week, with further concerts in Tokyo as well as one in Fukuoka.
Folles Journées >>
Teo Gheorghiu will be performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Basel Symphony orchestra for one concert in Zurich (May 10) and one concert in Basel (May 11). The conductor is Rossen Gergov.
This week Susanna Mälkki returns to Basel Symphony for concerts on 7 and 8 May with a programme of Mozart, Strauss and Sibelius.
Basel Symphony >>
Janine Jansen is in Winterthur this week for two performances of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Winterthur Orchestra. The concerts on May 7 and 8 will be conducted by Jac van Steen.
Stephen Hough performs Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.2 with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra on 9 and 10 May.
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra >>
Pekka Kuusisto joins Italy's Orchestra Marchigiana to direct a programme of Rautavaara, Sibelius, Sallinen and Vivaldi in concerts on 8, 9 and 10 May.
This week, Mikko Franck is with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for one concert on May 9. The programme includes Sibelius Symphony No.1 and the Dutch premičre of Lindberg's 'Arena'.
Christopher Warren-Green conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Watford on 8 May.
BBC Concert Orchestra >>
Paavo Järvi will be back in Frankfurt this week and conduct two concerts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on May 8 and 9. The programme will include:
Gustav Mahler's Totenfeier, Dvorįk's Cello Concerto with soloist Gautier Capuēon and Brahms' Third Symphony.
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra >>
Alina Pogostkina returns to the Hallé Orchestra once again. Under the baton of Mark Elder she performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Performances are on 8 and 11 May in Manchester and on 10 May in Bradford.
Hallé Orchestra >>
This week Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra in their 125th Birthday Concert on Wednesday 7 May at 7.30pm. Repertoire includes Richard Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra and Piano Concerto No.1 by Liszt with soloist Meng Yang Pan.
Royal College of Music >>
Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to the Vienna Konzerthaus on May 8 for a recital of Bach's Art of Fugue. He performs excerpts of this piece as well as other counterpoint pieces by Schoenberg and Carter at the Berliner Philharmonie on May 10.
Berliner Philharmoniker >>
Yakov Kreizberg and Julia Fischer return to the Konzerthaus Vienna to perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No.1 and Dvorak's Symphony No.7 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
This week in Reykjavik Rumon Gamba and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Symphony No.5, Pampichler's Hįtķšargjall and Schumann's Cello Concerto op.129 with Danjulo Ishizaka.