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This year, the Bruckner Festival is paying homage to women in music who have been unfairly underestimated for a long time in its series of concerts until October 11th under the motto “Awakening,” inspired by the poet prince Goethe. The eternal feminine draws us on high”. The OÖN is giving away two tickets for selected concerts five times (nachrichten.at/gewinnspiele):
September 22nd: The general music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich Vladimir Jurowski and the Bavarian State Orchestra play works by Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner. The soloist in Robert Schumann’s A minor Piano Concerto op. 54 is world-class pianist Yefim Bronfman.
September 24th: The Ad Libitum choir under its director Heinz Ferlesch from St. Valentin is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. With the original sound ensemble Barucco, the St. Cecilia’s Music by George Frideric Handel can be heard in the rarely heard arrangement by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. Soloists are soprano Yeree Suh, tenor Mario Lerchenberger and baritone Yannick Debus.
10/3: Marie Jaëll (1846–1925), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Louise Farrenc (1804–1875), Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) – they were all pioneers of great musical forms that were only available to men were granted. “It is not so much the style of writing that is missing as a certain principle of life,” said Fanny Hensel, who, like many of her colleagues, was plagued by self-doubt. Wrongfully so, as the works to which violinist Jonathan Stone, pianist David Kadouch and the ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under Jérémie Rhorer dedicate themselves show.
October 7th: The American pianist and patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge also commissioned three string quartets from Sergei Prokofiev, Leó Weiner, the “Hungarian Mendelssohn”, and Béla Bartók. An evening with the Schumann Quartet invites you to enjoy the finest chamber music.
October 11th: The Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the Bachchor Salzburg bring the Bruckner Festival to a close under the South Korean conductor Han-Na Chang in the St. Florian Abbey Basilica – with works by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) . Vocal soloists are Christina Landshamer (soprano), Florence Losseau (mezzo-soprano), tenor Martin Mitterrutzner and bass David Steffens.
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