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CONCERTS AT THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2002
Programmatic “islands” – close links to the opera productions

The concert programme of the Salzburg Festival 2002 is closely linked to the opera productions. Next season two operas will be presented that remained as fragments, Turandot and Der König Kandaules. The “Myth of the Unfinished” is a programmatic “island” in the concert sector, during which more fragments will be heard. Orchestral works, chamber music and songs by exiled composers will also be represented in a relevant programme “island”.
And of course New Music will not be neglected: for instance Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern will be complemented by three concerts with works by Helmut Lachenmann.

Peter Ruzicka – an advocate of contemporary music

What is your feeling about modern music? This is a question that could be put to the new artistic-director Peter Ruzicka, since in the previous ten years of the Mortier era, Hans Landesmann, responsible for concert programming, made New Music an integral part of the main concert sector.
The question can be answered with Pogner’s quote from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, “That question is a loser”, for the name Peter Ruzicka stands for contemporary music.He has composed advanced and weighty works, his last being the opera Celan for the Dresden State Opera, and as artistic director at the Hamburg State Opera he was successful with his progressive programming. For Hans-Werner Henze’s Biennial in Munich he commissioned several music-theatre works from young, promising composers.
In Salzburg Ruzicka announced that he does not intend to continue the Zeitfluss festival initiated by Markus Hinterhäuser and Thomas Zierhofer. Some people were and are disappointed about this. However, the right must be conceded to a new director to bring in his own ideas for his “era”. The permanent prolongation of something successful, such as Zeitfluss, could one day become the opposite: boring and sterile.

Exiled composers before and after the First World War

What does Ruzicka’s concert programme 2002 offer for the friends of newer music who like to take as the starting point the year 1900? One of the points of emphasis in Ruzicka’s opera programming is centred on works, often neglected in the past, by exiled composers from the time before and after the First World War: Zemlinsky, Schreker, Korngold, Wellesz. For instance, Dennis Russell Davies will conduct the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna in Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony in Seven Songs, op. 18; Vesselina Kasarova has an extensive group of Zemlinsky songs on the programme of her recital, and
the Vienna Philharmonic have a work by Franz Schreker in one of their six Festival concerts. Another focal point is Helmut Lachenmann’s opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern given as a concert performance by the South-west German Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden conducted by Sylvain Cambreling. Works by Lachenmann are also on the programme of the concert by the Arditti String Quartet and also by the Klangforum Wien conducted by Hans Zender.

Anne-Sophie Mutter plays and conducts

For those who are primarily interested in the classical and romantic repertoire, next year’s concert programme has plenty to offer: Anne-Sophie Mutter will give two concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic in which she will play and conduct Mozart’s violin concertos. The New York Metropolitan Orchestra is giving two guest concerts under its conductor James Levine with works by Mozart and Mahler (Symphony No. 6) as well as scenes from Parsifal and Die Walküre with Waltraud Meier and Placido Domingo as soloists. The Staatskapelle Dresden under Bernhard Haitink will given an entire concert of works by Richard Strauss, including the ‘Alpine’ Symphony. Riccardo Chailly will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony. Other guest orchestras include the Marinsky Kirov Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev; the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin under Kent Nagano, who will perform Schoenberg’s Jakobsleiter and Mozart’s Requiem as a fragment.

Established elements remain

Ruzicka is retaining the established division of the concert programme in cycles: Roger Norrington and the Camerata Salzburg present four concerts with works by Mozart and the exiled composers already mentioned; the ten Mozart Matinées will be conducted by Hubert Soudant, Marc Minkowski, Ivor Bolton, Manfred Honeck and Kyrill Petrenko; the names on the list of eight song recitals are Samuel Ramey, Vesselina Kasarova, Olga Borodina, Helen Donath, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, Angelika Kirchschlager and Simon Keenlyside. Instrumental recitals will be performed by Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Rudolf Buchbinder, Jessye Norman, Maxim Vengerov, Alfred Brendel and Krystian Zimerman.

The Vienna Philharmonic maintain their central position

The Vienna Philharmonic will present six concert programmes (each performed twice), thus maintaining their central position at the Salzburg Festival. Next year they will also be performing in chamber music ensembles: as the Vienna Wind Octet, the Viennese Chamber Ensemble, the Küchl Quartet and the Viennese Violin Quartet. In the series of Chamber Music concerts, besides the Arditti Quartet already mentioned, the Borodin Quartet, the Wanderer Trio, the Tokyo String Quartet and the Duo Midori (violin) and Robert McDonald (piano) can also be heard. Mozart’s Mass in C minor, K. 427 in St. Peter’s Abbey will be conducted by Marc Minkowski, who has become one of the regular conductors at the Salzburg Festival.

Gerhard Rohde

Camerata Salzburg

9 August 2002
Mozart Symphony in D major
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, K.313
Symphony in E flat major, K.543
Zemlinsky Two Movements for String Quintet
Soloist: Wolfgang Breinschmid Flute

11 August 2002
Mozart Symphony in C major,
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra, K.314
Symphony in G minor, K. 550
Korngold Lento religioso from the Symphonic Serenade
Soloist Louise Pellerin Oboe

15 August 2002
Mozart Symphony in D major
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
in B flat major, K. 191
Symphony in C major, K 551
Wellesz Music for String Orchestra, op.91
Soloist David Petersen bassoon
Conductor of these three concerts Sir Roger Norrington

28 August 2002
Schreker Chamber Symphony in
A major
Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C minor, K. 491
Haydn Symphony in B flat major, No.102
Soloist Andreas Haefliger piano
Conductor Bernhard Klee

Mozarteum Concerts begin at 7.30 p.m.
Ticket prices from € 8 to € 135