Arts Partnerships & Tours: August Adventures
30/7/2024
Spurred on by the guiding theme of the‘Rituals That Unite Us’, the Bamberger Symphoniker and conductor Jakub Hrůša unite with the Edinburgh International Festival to explore our collective rituals and their power to shape our identity and connect us – as a festival and as a community.
The orchestra performs Hans Rott’s little-known First Symphony at this year’s Festival on 6 August at Usher Hall. Alongside this symphonic masterpiece are works by Bruckner and Mahler, supporters of Rott. The programme showcases Symphonic Prelude by Bruckner and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Mahler. The Lieder is sung by mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison.
Then, the orchestra ingeniously couples Dvořák’s Te Deum with his son-in-law Josef Suk’s poignant Asrael symphony on 7 August. For the final performance on 9 August, the orchestra performs Dvořák’s New World Symphony in combination with Brahms’ Double Concerto.
Jakub Hrůša and Bamberger Symphoniker’s recent recording of works by Rott, Bruckner and Mahler won Hrůša the 2023 Opus Klassik Conductor of the Year Award.
Bamberger Symphoniker is a resident orchestra at this year’s Festival.
Riccardo Minasi conducts Ensemble Resonanz to perform Mozart’s thrilling overtures, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni, as well as Symphony No.41 Jupiter, with viola player Timothy Ridout and violinist Clara-Jumi Kang joining to play Sinfonia concertante on 20 August.
Journeying across the world from Japan, Bach Collegium Japan and its Music Director, Masaaki Suzuki, head to prestigious summer festivals across Spain, Germany, the UK and Austria.
Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of Bach’s St. John’s Passion, one of the highlights of this tour is a performance of this iconic work at the BBC Proms on 19 August.
The tour starts with a first performance on 10 August in Festival Internacional Santander, followed by two more performances with Bach Cantatas in Quincena Musical de San Sebastian and Torroella de Montgri. On 15 August, they perform J.S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion at Rheingau Musik Festival in the Basilika of Kloster Eberbach. They then head to Musikfest Bremen for two concerts on 17 August with Bach’s Cantatas. Heading to Austria, they give the final concert in their tour at Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik on 23 August with Bach’s Was frag ich nach der Welt, amongst other Bach works.
Star soloists join them for the concerts on this tour:
Evangelist: Benjamin Bruns
Soprano: Carolyn Sampson
Alto: Alexander Chance
Tenor: Shimon Yoshida
Bass: Christian Immler
On 21 August, Oslo Philharmonic and Artistic Director Klaus Mäkelä are joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili, who returns to Salzburg Festival to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, alongside Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5.
