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Festival
George Enescu International Festival 2023 - "Generosity through Music"
From August 27th to September 24th, 2023, the George Enescu International Festival, a remarkable and highly significant event in the world of classical music, will take place in Bucharest and other cities in Romania. This festival brings together over 3,500 world-renowned artists and more than 48 orchestras from 16 different countries. The artistic director of the 2023 edition is maestro Cristian Măcelaru, with maestro Zubin Mehta serving as honorary president.
The Enescu Festival has always stood out for featuring some of the world's greatest orchestras in its program. Sir Simon Rattle will return to Bucharest with the London Symphony Orchestra, young conductor Klaus Mäkelä will lead the legendary Concertgebouw Orchestra, accompanying pianist Yuja Wang, Charles Dutoit and the Hungarian National Philharmonic will present a recital with pianist Marta Argerich, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski will lead the Bavarian State Orchestra. Additionally, the National Orchestra of France will return with maestro Cristian Măcelaru. For the first time in Romania, the Gewandhaus Orchestra from Leipzig will be conducted by maestro Herbert Blomstedt, and renowned sopranos Aida Garifullina, Olga Peretyatko, and Kate Lindsey will enchant the audience at the Romanian Athenaeum.
This festival is a unique opportunity to experience high-quality music performed by exceptional artists, offering the audience the chance to enjoy remarkable musical events in prestigious venues.
Festival
Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Switzerland) - Season 2023-2024
THE PIERRE GIANADDA FOUNDATION IN MARTIGNY (SWITZERLAND) PRESENTS ITS MUSICAL SEASON 2023-24
13 concerts in the unique and inspiring setting of our exhibitions “The Fauves Years” and “Albert Anker and Childhood”.
Icon of the international scene, Cecilia Bartoli accompanied by the Ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro will bring Handel and Vivaldi into dialogue in a "Barocchissimo" evening.
Four fabulous pianists - Martha Argerich, Fazil Say, Grigory Sokolov and Francesco Piemontesi - will bewitch us with their distinguished and magnificent touches.
Chamber music will also be there:
Renaud Capuçon and Kit Amstrong will explore some Mozart Sonatas.
Isabelle Faust, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Melnikov will invite us to “Chez Schumann” while Eric Le Sage and his musician friends Daishin Kashimoto, Lise Berthaud and Zvi Plesser will pit Fauré against Debussy.
Led by Diego Fasolis, the Lausanne Vocal Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra will translate the magic of the holidays through a few cantatas from J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
Finally, Jordi Savall will join the forces of his Hespèrion XXI ensemble with those of the Mexican Tembembe Ensamble Continuo for an evening of “Antique and Creole follies”.
See you in Martigny (Valais-Switzerland) for a festive and colorful 46th musical season!
Concert
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées: Season 23-24
The 2023-24 season of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées once again holds high all the colors and forms of musical and choreographic art: honor to opera with La Cenerentola by Rossini at the start of the season, Mozart with The Magic Flute entrusted to Cédric Klapisch and its version for young audiences to Julie Depardieu, Boris Godounov with Matthias Goerne, Charpentier with Sébastien Daucé, the Baroque Carnival, and finally L'Olimpiade by Vivaldi with Jakub Józef Orliński without forgetting more than twenty works presented in concert for all tastes, from Lully to Rameau, Handel, Berlioz, Strauss, Wagner, and Kurt Weil. Many great French and international voices will be present in concert or recital, as well as the most prominent pianists from all over the world. The symphony will shine brass and wind with the continuation of the residence of Les Siècles of François-Xavier Roth, the Orchestra of the Vienna Opera and Philippe Jordan, that of the Scala of Milan and Riccardo Chailly, the National Orchestra of France , the Orchestre de chambre de Paris… Finally, two series much appreciated by the public, that of the Sunday Morning Concerts and the arrival within the framework of Transcendanses of the greatest international dance companies.
Concert
Opening Concerts of the 2023/2024 Season of the Lille National Orchestra
Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle in Lille on September 28, 29 and Cité de la musique et de la danse in Soissons on September 30
GERMANIC AND SLAVIAN ROMANTICISM CELEBRATED BY ALEXANDRE BLOCH
ALONGSIDE ALICE SARA OTT!
The composer's youthful work, Grieg's Piano Concerto is also the only concerto he completed. A romantic masterpiece, the three movements of this concerto - performed brilliantly by the German pianist Alice Sara Ott - take us on a journey to the Norwegian plains, particularly dear to Grieg.
Then it's time for Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5: although eleven years separate it from his fourth symphony, both share a recurring, almost inexorable motif: Providence, or "fatum", in the composer's own words. Alexandre Bloch, who is celebrating his 8th and final season as musical director of the symphonic phalanx, thus offers one of the greatest pages of the Russian repertoire, which first plunges us into darkness, before then allowing a dazzling light in the last movement.
Information and reservation www.onlille.com & by telephone on 03 20 12 82 40
Discover the program of the opening concert of the 23-24 season here