Under the motto of “friendship,” offers the 31. The Rheingau music Festival, varied and intense concert experiences. This year, the Stars Annette Dasch, Gabriele Montero and Frank Peter Zimmermann.
In 1988 it was founded on the private initiative of the present Director, Michael Herrmann. Meanwhile, the Rheingau music Festival has grown to become one of the most important music events in Europe. This year, 40 locations along the 38-Kilometer-long land are set out in the hilly wine-growing region between Wiesbaden, Germany and the middle Rhine valley in connection with each other – a tourist scenic area, full of castles and palaces. Among the main venues of the Eberbach monastery, Johannisberg Palace, Schloss Vollrads and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden as well as various wineries.
Music experience between castles and vineyards
The Festival, with a total of 170 concerts began on 23.6. in the Basilica of the monastery Eberbach with the Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal, Frankfurt radio Symphony orchestra conducted works of Hector Berlioz, and Giacomo Puccini.
In the Cistercian Abbey of the Festival ends ten weeks later. At the final concert on 1. September plays the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s “Haffner” and Bruckner’s “Romantic”symphonies. The management of the canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who describes this music as “varied and full of different artistic positions”. It is a farewell is in a double sense: After ten years of Nézet-Séguins stop time as a chief conductor in Rotterdam; he will concentrate on his new tasks as head of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
They call him simply “Yannick” with the Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestra
The Rheingau music Festival’s own musical paths
Often the many music festivals in Germany are the same artists, the play, as it were, through the same or similar programs elsewhere. In contrast, the Rheingau music Festival sets tend to their own accents, in the current Year, there are about five cycles in the offer. The complete violin sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven, all of the Schumann symphonies and Bach’s Brandenburg concertos – designed by the violinist Isabelle Faust, violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, pianist Alexander Melnikov and Martin helmchen and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its principal conductor Paavo Järvi. Furthermore, the three piano trios of Johannes Brahms will resound in a exceptional occupation with violinist Keonidas Kavakos, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax.
The Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero is as a classical Improviser of the most extraordinary talents
The focus of the world’s currently most well-known Oboist Albrecht Mayer, also with six specially-designed programs. The Australian composer Brett Dean, one of 56 years of the most-performed composers of his Generation, with designed several programs at the Festival and on the Board, these five famous Jazz Trios.
Artist-in-Residence at the Rheingau music Festival, the German Opera and concert singer Annette Dasch, which is designed as a skillful presenter of the six events, with music from Beethoven to Franz Lehár.
The pianist Hélène Grimaud, the Jazz trumpeter Till Brönner and the piano-playing genius of Improvisation Gabriela Montero are among the artists that occur again and again in the Rheingau, in the current year.
Composer focus
On the occasion of the 100. Birthday is honored this year by the American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein far and wide. So, too, the Rheingau music Festival, whose artistic Director, Michael Hermann with amber was personally friends with. Seven events will be dedicated to Bernstein, including a performance of the film version of his musical “West Side Story” with live music.
One hundred years have also passed since the death of Claude Debussy. The French composer, introduced away from all the conventions of a sound revolution, will be devoted to seven events.
Pure Inspiration: the music of Claude Debussy
Four of the ten events offer young musicians under the title of “Next Generation” one platform, for example through formats such as a “Klassik-Marathon” or “Young master pianists of the Russian school”. In the case of eight concerts under the heading the “Expedition of Sound” music-making a variety of cross-genre musical cross-over with different cultural backgrounds.
Public money is scarce, sponsorship
Unusually – at least for German standards – is the financing model of the Rheingau Musik Festival: From the beginning, it received no funding from the public sector. With a budget of around eight million euros, half of the financing comes from corporate sponsorship and the other half from revenue through ticket sales. In the past year, the utilization was 92 percent; 103 concerts were sold out.