“AN ENTIRE WORLD OF DEEPEST THOUGHTS”
Instrumental and Song Recitals in Salzburg
Thoughts and feelings
The idea appears to be both radical and incredibly bold: music for one voice containing within itself the sound spectrum of polyphony. Johann Sebastian Bach ventured on this paradox with his sonatas and partitas for solo violin and made generations of musicians bow down in reverent amazement. “The man writes an entire world of deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings on a system, for a small instrument”, enthused Brahms about the famous Chaconne from the Partita in D minor, BWV 1004. With this epoch-making work Gidon Kremer will open the exquisite pro- gramme of his recital in the Mozarteum at the end of July, an evening when he will perform alone and together with the cellist Marta Sudraba. A few days later a solo recital in the literal sense will musically enchant lovers of the violin: Maxim Vengerov plays compositions by Ysaye and Schtschedrin and of course works by Bach.
Sensitive and Open-Minded
Concerts such as these throw a completely new light on the glamorous Festival. Salzburg proves to be a place that brings together sensitive and open-minded people from all over the world, even the allegedly long “extinct” educated classes. That is why the lied recitals are so highly regarded here. What an outmoded art, so unspectacular and without any trappings, simply concentrated on poetry in song. Singers such as Helen Donath, Olga Borodina, Ian Bostridge or Thomas Hampson have, besides their operatic commitments, a predilection for the genre of lied. Simply to hear them would be reason enough to make a journey to Salzburg.
Wolfgang Stähr
SOLO RECITALS
29 July Mozarteum
Gidon Kremer Violin
Marta Sudraba Violoncello
Sold out
4 August, Kleines Festspielhaus
Maxim Vengerov Violin
Tickets available for € 22, 30, 40, 50, 65 and 95
LIED RECITALS
8 August, Mozarteum
Helen Donath Soprano
Klaus Donath Piano
Tickets available for € 30, 45, 65 and 90
10 August, Mozarteum
Olga Borodina Mezzosoprano
Dmitri Yefimov Piano
Tickets available for € 30, 45, 65 and 90
13 August, Mozarteum
Ian Bostridge Tenor
Julius Drake Piano
Tickets available for € 30, 45, 65 and 90
Alfred Hrdlicka,
Schubert: Love has to wander, 1996/97
Tickets are available from
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