“The music and the love,” says Michi Gaigg. How else could the answer to the question: “What animates the beautiful world?” The title of the first aria from Schubert’s melodrama “Die Zauberharfe” is the motto of the concert that the conductor from Schörfling am Attersee and her L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra will play tomorrow in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.
Today at noon, the original sound ensemble starts the long train journey, rehearsing eagerly until departure. “The concert is on Tuesday evening. At 5 p.m. we have another rehearsal,” says Gaigg, for whom it is already the second guest performance at the Elbphilharmonie. “It’s particularly nice that we can continue with our Schubert fever,” she alludes to the most recent milestone of her orchestra: the complete recording of all symphonies and symphonic fragments by Franz Schubert, which was released as a box with four CDs last autumn and for the ” Award of the German Record Critics”.
On February 20th in the Brucknerhaus
The L’Orfeo Orchestra will be giving a home game in Linz’s Brucknerhaus on February 20th, with works from the Mannheim School: “There’s a lot of great music. The last concert before the lockdown is almost to the day, on February 16th, 2019 played in the Brucknerhaus” – before Corona slowed down the orchestra’s 25th anniversary last year. A guest performance in Oslo planned for this March had to be postponed again until autumn. Michi Gaigg, on the other hand, looks forward to guest performances at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, the Handel Festival in Halle and the St. John Passion in Salzburg.
What enlivens the beautiful world? The music, the love – and certainly the L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. (cash)
Source: Nachrichten
