Ten HarrisonParrott artists & orchestras at Salzburg Festival 2024
19/7/2024
Ten HarrisonParrott artists & orchestras perform at Salzburg Festival 2024
Patricia Kopatchinskaja headlines the festival with two concerts on 20 July and 23 August.
For the first, she joins forces with Camerata Salzburg to perform Hartmann’s thought-provoking Concerto funebre. Composed in 1939 as a response to the Nazi terror, this piece, originally titled Music of Mourning, serves as a poignant reminder of the horrors of war.
Further ahead, Kopatchinskaja presents Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments together with soprano Anna Prohaska, a cycle that weaves together a tapestry of over three dozen absurdly sarcastic and enigmatic fragmented miniatures.
Sarah Aristidou joins Klangforum Wien as Michaela in Georg Friedrich Haas’ opera KOMA led by Bas Wiegers at the Stiftung Mozarteum on 24 July and in Beat Furrer’s Begehren, a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice, conducted by the composer himself. This concert performance takes place in the KollegienKirche on 29 July.
John Daszak reprises the roles of The Jailor and The Grand Inquisitor in a concert performance of Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Felsenreitschule on 25 July. Paired in a double-bill with Nono’s Il canto sospeso, the performance is conducted by Maxime Pascal.
On 21 August, Klaus Mäkelä conducts Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 with Oslo Philharmonic.
Jörg Widmann returns to Salzburg Festival to join forces with Camerata Salzburg and baritone Matthias Goerne for the Austrian première of his Schumannliebe, an instrumentation of the famous song cycle Dichterliebe based on poems by Heinrich Heine on 21 August at Stiftung Mozarteum. The programme also features Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 and Three Pieces for string orchestra from Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite.
Tamara Stefanovich returns to Salzburg Festival to perform Maurice Ravel’s La Valse, Choreographic Poem for two pianos with Nenad Lečić on 3 August at Stiftung Mozarteum. The programme also features Gustav Mahler’s ‘Der Abschied’ from Das Lied von der Erde and Johann Strauss’ Kaiserwalzer arranged by Arnold Schönberg with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and Marianne Crebassa conducted by Maxime Pascal. Later that evening Tamara Stefanovich and Nenad Lečić perform Schönberg’s Chamber Symphony No.2 in an arrangement for two pianos at Stiftung Mozarteum. Both concerts are part of the this year’s Time with Schönberg focus.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to the Salzburg Festival on 6 August to perform a recital programme that explores the solo piano works of Schönberg, Scriabin, Ravel, Webern, Brahms and Schumann.
Timothy Ridout performs Mozart on 17 and 18 August with Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg for an all-Mozart programme featuring Six German Dances, Sinfonia Concertante, Divertimento for Strings and his Symphony in D major, conducted by Andrew Manze.
