Thursday, 19. December 2019, 19:30 Uhr - Großes Festspielhaus
Bruckner's Romantic Symphony
The Bruckner Orchestra Linz will guest with a large symphonic repertoire under its principal conductor Markus Poschner. Anton Bruckner's "Fourth" is the only one of his symphonies to which a programme has been transmitted, full of romantic motifs. ...
Wednesday, 18. December 2019, 19:30 Uhr - Großes Festspielhaus
Martin Grubinger Multi-Percussionist
The unique Martin Grubinger dedicates himself to the brilliant percussion concerto of the Finn Kalevi Aho, born in 1949, who is an original polystilist in the succession of Mahler and Schnittke. The title "Sieidi" means "place of worship". A ritual ...
Monday, 09. December 2019, 19:30 Uhr - WIFI Saal 1
Richard Strauss - A hero's life?
The "symphonic poem", also called "tone poem", originated in the Romantic period. In contrast to the mostly "absolute" classical symphony, it tells a story in sounding pictures.
Friday, 15. November 2019, 19:30 Uhr - Großes Festspielhaus
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony
What could be more Nordic than the Norwegian Edvard Grieg's music to Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" - music that belongs to the most popular treasure of the romantic 19th century. With his fellow countryman Vikingur Olafsson on piano, Bjarnason brings his own ...
Thursday, 14. November 2019, 19:30 Uhr - Großes Festspielhaus
Sibelius' Fifth Symphony
Jean Sibelius can be experienced not only as a beguiling sound painter of Finnish forests and lakes, but also as a visionary of a modernity that remains true to beauty in his 5th Symphony. And in between, "our" master hornist Radovan Vlatković ...
Wednesday, 13. November 2019, 19:30 Uhr - Großes Festspielhaus
Sibelius' Fifth Symphony
A symphony orchestra from Iceland? The orchestra from the island of ice and fire is making an international career. The young conductor and composer Daníel Bjarnason, already celebrated in Europe and the USA, also comes from Reykjavik. Music of the ...
Sunday, 20. October 2019, 18:30 Uhr - Dom zu Salzburg
Elias
Elias means "Yahweh is my God." So the prophet already bears his confession to the one God in his name. Mendelssohn's second oratorio tells the story of the biblical prophet Elijah and his militant efforts to convince the Israelites of this God.
The Sunday meeting with the orchestra of the Salzburg Cultural Association under the baton of Helmut Zeilner, who has been conducting the dedicated amateur orchestra for five years, will once again mark the musical conclusion of the Salzburg ...