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Kronberg Festival 2022;Violin makers’ exhibition 2022 | VioViva Violin Fair
It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival.
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Wed 28 September

10.00 - 16.00

Stadthalle Kronberg

Tickets
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Kronberg Festival 2022

Violin makers’ exhibition 2022

VioViva Violin Fair

It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival. The event will bring together some 100 luthiers, bow makers, strings manufacturers and accessories suppliers under one roof, and will also host a mobile violin making workshop offering insights into one of the world’s most precious crafts. Powered by SINFONIMA.
Kronberg Festival 2022 | What influences the response, volume and timbre of my instrument? How can I optimise this?
Talk with Thomas Zwieg and Prof. Maria Kliegel (Larsen Strings A/S)
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Wed 28 September

14.30 - 15.30

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


Admission free

Kronberg Festival 2022

What influences the response, volume and timbre of my instrument? How can I optimise this?

Talk with Thomas Zwieg and Prof. Maria Kliegel (Larsen Strings A/S)
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Mastering technical challenges and finding authentic musical expression are key to the successful performance of compositions. To achieve these things, the instrument needs to respond easily and produce a rich variety of harmonic colour.

Prof. em. Maria Kliegel ((Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) and Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwieg (Chief developer at Larsen Strings A/S) provide insights into how instruments, strings, bows and bowing techniques interact with one another, and into what can be done to influence qualities such as response, articulation, volume and tone

Talk given in English. Free admission.

Kronberg Festival 2022 | “WORK OF ART” TOUR SCULPTURES AROUND THE CASALS FORUM
Music has shape and sometimes shapes are like music – “C major” and “Timbre” are the sculptures created for the Casals Forum by artist Sir Tony Cragg, and the sculpture “Hommage à Pablo Casals” by Walter Schembs watches over them from the neighbouring Victoria Park.
Beethoven-Platz

Wed 28 September

15.00

Beethoven-Platz


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Kronberg Festival 2022

“WORK OF ART” TOUR
SCULPTURES AROUND THE CASALS FORUM

Music has shape and sometimes shapes are like music – “C major” and “Timbre” are the sculptures created for the Casals Forum by artist Sir Tony Cragg, and the sculpture “Hommage à Pablo Casals” by Walter Schembs watches over them from the neighbouring Victoria Park... These short sculpture tours allow participants to get to know the new Casals Forum.
Kronberg Festival 2022 | LISTEN WHILE YOU WALK... AND DISCOVER THE CASALS FORUM
Would you like to spend a day “systematically” discovering the Casals Forum, walking its corridors and “eavesdropping” through its doors? If so, the tour package on Wednesday, 28 September is perfect for you.
Beethoven-Platz

Wed 28 September

15.00

Beethoven-Platz

Kronberg Festival 2022

LISTEN WHILE YOU WALK... AND DISCOVER THE CASALS FORUM

Would you like to spend a day “systematically” discovering the Casals Forum, walking its corridors and “eavesdropping” through its doors? If so, the tour package on Wednesday, 28 September is perfect for you. It comprises a “Work of Art” tour around the Casals Forum (see above), masterclasses in the study centre, drinks in the Foyer and tickets to the “Around Schubert” concert with Gidon Kremer, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Martin Helmchen and Kremerata Baltica in the main auditorium.
Concert | AROUND SCHUBERT
2022 is a year of celebration for Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, partners in discovery and experimentation who collectively turned 100 this year.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Wed 28 September

19.45

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

Concert

Concert 11

AROUND SCHUBERT

Kremerata Baltica, orchestra
Gidon Kremer, violin
Ella van Poucke, cello
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Fuad Ibrahimov, conductor

2022 is a year of celebration for Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, partners in discovery and experimentation who collectively turned 100 this year. To mark this milestone, they are dedicating the year to a project entitled “After Schubert – a different Winterreise”. Their performance of Alfred Schnittke’s concerto for piano and strings is sure to be a new discovery for many, whereas Haydn’s C major cello concerto with Ella van Poucke needs no introduction.
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Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Concert No.1 in C major for cello and orchestra Hob. VIIb: 1

Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Concert for piano and strings

intermission

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
„After Schubert - eine andere Winterreise"
A cycle of songs by Franz Schubert for violins and strings, written for Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica from Alexander Raskatov, Victor Kissine, Raminta Serksnyte, Georgijs Osokins und Leonid Desyatnikov
Deutsche Erstaufführung

Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer, violin
Ella van Poucke, cello
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Fuad Ibrahimov, conductor


Subject to change.

Concert | HAE KE KAE - WHERE IS HOME?
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe and the Bantu Ensemble combine Bach’s cello suites and a late baroque cello sonata from Italian composer
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Wed 28 September

21.15

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


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Concert

Concert 12

HAE KE KAE - WHERE IS HOME?

Abel Selaocoe, cello
Fred Thomas, piano
Alan Keary, bass
Dudù Kouate, south african percussion

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe and the Bantu Ensemble combine Bach’s cello suites and a late baroque cello sonata from Italian composer Giovanni Benedetto Platti with their own music – virtuosic improvisation, song and body percussion – exploring an exciting frontier between different styles and worlds!
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Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763)
Cellosonata No.7 in D major, I. 84

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
movements out of the Cellosuiten No.3 in C major BWV 1009 and No.5 in C minor BWV 1011

Abel Selaocoe
Ibuyile I'Africa - Africa is Back
Ka Bohaleng - On the Sharp Side
Zawose (for Hukwe Zawose)
Lerato - Love
Ancestral Affirmations

ABEL SELAOCOE & THE BANTU ENSEMBLE
Abel Selaocoe, cello and vocals
Fred Thomas, piano
Alan Keary, bass
Dudu Kouaté, south african percussion


Subject to change.

Kronberg Festival 2022;Violin makers’ exhibition 2022 | VioViva Violin Fair
It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival.
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Thu 29 September

10.00 - 18.00

Stadthalle Kronberg

Tickets
5 €
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Kronberg Festival 2022

Violin makers’ exhibition 2022

VioViva Violin Fair

It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival. The event will bring together some 100 luthiers, bow makers, strings manufacturers and accessories suppliers under one roof, and will also host a mobile violin making workshop offering insights into one of the world’s most precious crafts. Powered by SINFONIMA.
Kronberg Festival 2022 | Information on potential CITES regulations for Pernambuco.
Talk by Thomas Gerbeth (master bowmaker)
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Thu 29 September

14.00

Stadthalle Kronberg


Eintritt frei

Kronberg Festival 2022

Information on potential CITES regulations for Pernambuco.

Talk by Thomas Gerbeth (master bowmaker)
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Considered to be the perfect bow wood, Brazilian Pernambuco has been used to make bows for stringed instruments since the late 18th century. However, the Pernambuco tree is today among the endangered species of Brazil’s forests. In his talk, master bowmaker Thomas Gerbeth from Vienna will speak about this material that is so important to bow and instrument making, and about the potential regulations we may see in future from the UN conservation organisation CITES.

Concert | WELTREISE
Music from Iran, Egypt, Mongolia, Azerbaijan... The Bridges Chamber Orchestra and Israeli conductor Bar Avni unite European orchestral culture and the musical culture of migrants to create something thrilling and new – and a highlight of their performance will be the première of a concerto movement composed by Peter Klohmann for the Bridges Chamber Orchestra and cellist Laszlo Fenyö.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Thu 29 September

19.45

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

Concert

Concert 13

WELTREISE

Bridges-Kammerorchester, chamber orchestra
László Fenyö, cello
Bar Avni, conductor

Music from Iran, Egypt, Mongolia, Azerbaijan... The Bridges Chamber Orchestra and Israeli conductor Bar Avni unite European orchestral culture and the musical culture of migrants to create something thrilling and new – and a highlight of their performance will be the première of a concerto movement composed by Peter Klohmann for the Bridges Chamber Orchestra and cellist Laszlo Fenyö.
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Presentation by the artists

Heshmat Sanjari (1918–1995)
Dance of the Dayreh

Nantsagiin Jantsannorov (*1949)
Mandukhai Setsen Khatan
Enkhtuya Jambaldorj, Ytga (mongolian harp)

Majid Derakhshani (*1957)
Khoroush

Peter Klohmann (*1986)
Concert for cello solo and Bridges-chamber orchestra
premiere

intermission

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Sonata in D minor „La Follia”, Arr. Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff

Khadija Zeynalova (*1975)
Azerbaijani Fairy Tale

Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1907–1991)
Law Hakena, Arr. Walid Khatba

Andrés Rosales (*1988)
Cirilí

Bridges-chamber orchestra
László Fenyő, cello
Bar Avni, conductor


Subject to change.

Concert | ELEGIE & EMPHASE
Whether it's indulgent or fragile and delicate, sometimes music is simply "a poem". Schubert's famous soulfully songful Arpeggione Sonata, César Franck's equally beloved passionate A Major Sonata, and two Elegies by Franz Liszt are performed by Alban Gerhardt and Håvard Gimse in the atmospheric Johanniskirche.
Johanniskirche
Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 18 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Thu 29 September

21.15

Johanniskirche

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Concert 14

ELEGIE & EMPHASE

Alban Gerhardt, cello
Håvard Gimse, piano

Whether it's indulgent or fragile and delicate, sometimes music is simply "a poem". Schubert's famous soulfully songful Arpeggione Sonata, César Franck's equally beloved passionate A Major Sonata, and two Elegies by Franz Liszt are performed by Alban Gerhardt and Håvard Gimse in the atmospheric Johanniskirche.
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Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Elegy No. 1 A flat major for cello and piano S. 130b
Elegy No. 2 C major for cello and piano S. 131

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Arpeggione Sonata in a minor for cello and piano D 821

César Franck (1822–1890)
Sonata in  A major for cello and piano WV 655

Alban Gerhardt, cello
Håvard Gimse, piano
 

Cellist Truls Mørk unfortunately had to cancel the concert due to a muscle injury.


Subject to change.

Kronberg Festival 2022;Violin makers’ exhibition 2022 | VioViva Violin Fair
It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival.
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Fri 30 September

10.00 - 18.00

Stadthalle Kronberg

Tickets
5 €
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Violin makers’ exhibition 2022

VioViva Violin Fair

It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival. The event will bring together some 100 luthiers, bow makers, strings manufacturers and accessories suppliers under one roof, and will also host a mobile violin making workshop offering insights into one of the world’s most precious crafts. Powered by SINFONIMA.
Kronberg Festival 2022 | STRINGTELLIGENCE – String secrets to optimize your performance.
Talk with Dipl.-Ingenieur Bernhard Rieger (Thomastik-Infeld GmbH)
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Fri 30 September

14.30

Stadthalle Kronberg


Admission free

Kronberg Festival 2022

STRINGTELLIGENCE – String secrets to optimize your performance.

Talk with Dipl.-Ingenieur Bernhard Rieger (Thomastik-Infeld GmbH)
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Musical Strings have an essential impact on an instrument’s performance and their importance is usually underestimated. They are a direct “translator” between the players hands and the instruments response and literally connect both – technically and also musically. When searching for “the ideal” setup, strings can inspire the musician for a full artistic expression or also can limit it. When we carefully choose them from the big variety of options, a rich balance between so many – also contradictory - aspects of sound, projection and playing feel can be found. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Rieger (Thomastik-Infeld GmbH, Wien) will give an insight in numerous string secrets that can help to orientate musicians personal search and optimize their performance.

During his final diploma year, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Rieger has worked for AKG Microphones / Headphones. Since the he is working for over 20 years as product developer at Thomastik-Infeld GmbH and specialized on cello and double bass strings. Since having finished his double-bass studies with excellence at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Rieger has been invited as guest-player in Viennas top orchestras. He is working daily with musicians of various levels to guide them to find their personal ideal string set up. Recently he took over the String Developers team at Thomastik-Infeld as Director of String Development.

Concert | BAROCCO GRANDE
A 65-strong baroque orchestra brings you baroque concertos and arias with an unparalleled richness of sound that created quite a sensation at ceremonial events in Baroque Rome! Witnesses of the time described the reawakening of an “almost divine harmony” when as many as 100 musicians and more performed under the direction of Arcangelo Corelli.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Fri 30 September

19.45

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Concert

Concert 15

BAROCCO GRANDE

Barockorchester La Stagione & Friends, orchestra
Michael Schneider, conductor
Kristin von der Goltz, cello
Kateryna Kasper, soprano

A 65-strong baroque orchestra brings you baroque concertos and arias with an unparalleled richness of sound that created quite a sensation at ceremonial events in Baroque Rome! Witnesses of the time described the reawakening of an “almost divine harmony” when as many as 100 musicians and more performed under the direction of Arcangelo Corelli.
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Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Concerto grosso No.8 in G minor for two violins, cello, strings and basso continuo op. 6

Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682)
Arias for soprano and concerto grosso
„Sovrano mio bene” from „Ah, ah, troppo è ver” 
„Sorde dive” and „Queste lagrime” from „San Giovanni Battista”
„Disperarsi è vanità” from „Il Damone”

Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762)
Suite from „Der Zauberwald" after Torquato Tasso for trumpet, two horns, two flutes, concertino and concerto grosso

intermission

Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
Concert in G major for cello, strings and basso continuo

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Concerto grosso No.1 in G major for two violins, cello, strings and basso continuo op. 6 No. 1

Baroque Orchestra La Stagione & friends
65 musicians according to original historical model

Michael Schneider, conductor
Petra Müllejans, String disposition
Kristin von der Goltz, cello
Kateryna Kasper, soprano


Subject to change.

Concert | CELLO-NACHT
This is now practically a tradition at the Festival: instigated and led by Kian Soltani, seven young Kronberg Academy cellists “rock” the evening together with arrangements and originals from Chesnokov, Vivaldi, Sollima, Gardel, Barralet and Piazzolla.
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Fri 30 September

21.15

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


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Concert 16

CELLO-NACHT

Kian Soltani, cello and conducting
Sebastian Fritsch, cello
Anouchka Hack, cello
Minji Kim, cello
Manuel Lipstein, cello
Edward Luengo, cello
Ildikó Szabó, cello
Alexander Warenberg, cello

This is now practically a tradition at the Festival: instigated and led by Kian Soltani, seven young Kronberg Academy cellists “rock” the evening together with arrangements and originals from Chesnokov, Vivaldi, Sollima, Gardel, Barralet and Piazzolla.
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Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
„To thee we sing” for Cello-Oktett – arr. Kian Soltani

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Double concert for two cello and ensemble - arr. Ivan Monighetti

Giovanni Sollima (*1962)
„Violoncelles vibrez!” for two celli and ensemble

Carlos Gardel/James Barralet (*1979)
„Por una Cabeza” for Celloquartet

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
„Winter” und “Frühling” from „The 4 seasons of Buenos Aires“ – arr. James Barralet

Traditional/James Barralet (*1979)
„Folk off!”
Memories of Europe

Kian Soltani, cello and and Director
Sebastian Fritsch, cello
Anouchka Hack, cello
Minji Kim, cello
Manuel Lipstein, cello
Edward Luengo, cello
Ildiko Szábo, cello
Alexander Warenberg, cello


Subject to change.

Kronberg Festival 2022;Violin makers’ exhibition 2022 | VioViva Violin Fair
It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival.
Stadthalle Kronberg
Heinrich-Winter-Straße 1 Kronberg im Taunus Hessen 61476

Sat 1 October

10.00 - 18.00

Stadthalle Kronberg

Tickets
5 €
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Kronberg Festival 2022

Violin makers’ exhibition 2022

VioViva Violin Fair

It’s showtime for a living craft with a rich tradition: the international violin making exhibition VioViva Kronberg is making its debut during the Kronberg Festival. The event will bring together some 100 luthiers, bow makers, strings manufacturers and accessories suppliers under one roof, and will also host a mobile violin making workshop offering insights into one of the world’s most precious crafts. Powered by SINFONIMA.
Concert | KIDS@CASALS – CHILDREN IN THE CASALS FORUM!
Of course, there is also something on offer for our important youngest (and future) visitors to the Casals Forum – a kids’ concert with musical narrator Christoph Gotthardt and the cellists Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, who together are also known as “Cello Duello”.
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Sat 1 October

16.00

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

Classic for Kids 2022

Concert

KIDS@CASALS – CHILDREN IN THE CASALS FORUM!

Of course, there is also something on offer for our important youngest (and future) visitors to the Casals Forum – a kids’ concert with musical narrator Christoph Gotthardt and the cellists Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, who together are also known as “Cello Duello”.
Concert | ZWIEGESPRÄCHE
Even the smallest ensembles can create tempestuous worlds: Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein perform the première of a suite composed by Thomas Adès for the opening of the Casals Forum, which makes reference to his opera “The Tempest”, based on the play by William Shakespeare.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sat 1 October

18.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

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Concert 17

ZWIEGESPRÄCHE

Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Kirill Gerstein, piano

Even the smallest ensembles can create tempestuous worlds: Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein perform the première of a suite composed by Thomas Adès for the opening of the Casals Forum, which makes reference to his opera “The Tempest”, based on the play by William Shakespeare. This will be accompanied by the dramatic D minor sonata by Johannes Brahms and Béla Bartók’s Violin Sonata No 2, inspired by the Hungarian folk tradition.
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata No.3 in D minor for violin and piano op. 108

Thomas Adès (1971*)
A Tempest Suite for violin and piano
premiere

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Sonata No.2 for violin and piano Sz 76

Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Kirill Gerstein, piano


Subject to change.

Concert | ZWIEGESPRÄCHE II
Cello and piano or piano and cello? Max Bruch’s musical setting of the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer, the response “Crépuscule du Kol Nidré” by Graziane Finzi, three extremely short pieces by Anton Webern and a major cello sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven provide ample talking points for the duo of Gary Hoffmann and David Selig, who have had a blind (but never unhearing!) faith in one another for many years.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sat 1 October

20.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

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Concert 18

ZWIEGESPRÄCHE II

Gary Hoffman, cello
David Selig, piano

Cello and piano or piano and cello? Max Bruch’s musical setting of the Jewish Kol Nidre prayer, the response “Crépuscule du Kol Nidré” by Graziane Finzi, three extremely short pieces by Anton Webern and a major cello sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven provide ample talking points for the duo of Gary Hoffmann and David Selig, who have had a blind (but never unhearing!) faith in one another for many years.
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Max Bruch (1838–1920)
Kol Nidrei for cello and piano op. 47

Graciane Finzi (*1945)
Crépuscule du Kol Nidré (2009)

Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Three little compositions for cello and piano op. 11

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata No.5 in D major for piano and cello op. 102 No. 2

Gary Hoffman, cello
David Selig, piano


Subject to change.

Concert | CELLO DUELLO
Cooperation or competition? Two masterful cellists, Jans Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, have been captivating audiences for more than 25 years as “Cello Duello”.
Kronberg Castle

Sat 1 October

21.15

Kronberg Castle

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Concert 19

CELLO DUELLO

Jens Peter Maintz, cello
Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, cello

Cooperation or competition? Two masterful cellists, Jans Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, have been captivating audiences for more than 25 years as “Cello Duello”. The concert evening at Burg Kronberg will see them take the stage together to compete in highly virtuosic fashion with music from Haydn, Popper and Paganini.
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Joseph Haydn (1782-1840)
Duett in D major for two celli Hob X:11 und XII:3+5

David Popper (1843-1913)
Suite for two celli op. 16

Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Cantabile in D major op. 17

Nicolò Paganini
Moses Fantasy

Jens Peter Maintz, cello
Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, cello


Subject to change.

Concert | hr-BIGBAND: Satchmo goes Big Apple
Half of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band’s programme is dedicated to Louis Armstrong, the other to the young Duke Ellington. Conducted by David Grottschreiber, the ensemble breathes new life into the music of these two big band jazz pioneers, with congenial soloist Axel Schlosser in the role of Louis Armstrong.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sun 2 October

11.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

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Concert 20

hr-BIGBAND: Satchmo goes Big Apple

David Grottschreiber, conducting
Axel Schlosser, trumpet
hr-Bigband, orchestra

Half of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band’s programme is dedicated to Louis Armstrong, the other to the young Duke Ellington. Conducted by David Grottschreiber, the ensemble breathes new life into the music of these two big band jazz pioneers, with congenial soloist Axel Schlosser in the role of Louis Armstrong.
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Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Bigband)
David Grottschreiber, director
Axel Schlosser, trumpet

Kronberg Festival 2022 | PABLO CASALS AWARD – FOR A BETTER WORLD
Moderator: Nina Ruge Laudatory speech: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn Kronberg Academy will present for the first time - in the future annually - the Pablo Casals Award, initiated by Flossbach von Storch AG and chaired by Marta Casals Istomin.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sun 2 October

18.30

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

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PABLO CASALS AWARD – FOR A BETTER WORLD

Moderator: Nina Ruge Laudatory speech: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn Kronberg Academy will present for the first time - in the future annually - the Pablo Casals Award, initiated by Flossbach von Storch AG and chaired by Marta Casals Istomin. Support is provided by the "Artists for a better Future" initiative launched by Christoph Poppen. The award is given to artist who has shown exceptional social commitment.
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Tickets for Concert 21 “Resonanzen” on Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 7.45 pm also grant free entry to the awards ceremony. Please register your space by telephone on +49 (0) 6173 783377, or by emailing karten(at)kronbergacademy.de.

Concert | RESONANZEN
At home in St Pauli, our guest in Kronberg: the 18-strong string orchestra “Ensemble Resonanz” makes old music resonate with new. Together with soprano Anna Prohaska and cellist Jean Guihen Queyras, and under the baton of Riccardo Minasi, they will make the Casals Forum resound with works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Alban Berg and Theo Verbey.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sun 2 October

19.45

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

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Concert 21

RESONANZEN

Ensemble Resonanz, orchestra
Anna Prohaska, soprano
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Herbert Schuch, piano
Riccardo Minasi, conductor

At home in St Pauli, our guest in Kronberg: the 18-strong string orchestra “Ensemble Resonanz” makes old music resonate with new. Together with soprano Anna Prohaska and cellist Jean Guihen Queyras, and under the baton of Riccardo Minasi, they will make the Casals Forum resound with works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Alban Berg and Theo Verbey.
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Tickets for Concert 21 “Resonanzen” also grant free entry to the awards ceremony "Pablo Casals Award - For A Better World" on Sunday, 2  October 2022 at 6.30 pm in the Casals Forum. Please register your space by telephone on +49 (0) 6173 783377, or by emailing karten(at)kronbergacademy.de.

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Symphony No.35 „Haffner“ in D major KV 385

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
Concert in A minor for cello and orchestra WQ 170

intermission

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Lyrical Suite for string orchestra, movements 2-4

Alban Berg / Theo Verbey (1959–2019)
Lyrical Suite for string orchestra, 6. movement (with hidden voice)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Arie „Se il Padre“ from the opera „Idomeneo“ for soprano and orchestra KV 366
Arie „Ch’io mi Scordi di te“ for soprano, piano and orchestra KV 505

Ensemble Resonanz
Anna Prohaska, soprano
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello
Herbert Schuch, piano
Riccardo Minasi, conductor


Subject to change.

Concert | CELLISSIMO Kammerkonzert der Preisträger der Cello Meisterkurse
Cello Masterclasses finale! Are you a cello lover? If so, a trove of discoveries awaits you here! A performance from young cellists selected by the tutors marks the culmination of the Cello Masterclasses.
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Sun 2 October

21.15

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

Concert

Concert 22

CELLISSIMO
Kammerkonzert der Preisträger der Cello Meisterkurse

Cello Masterclasses finale! Are you a cello lover? If so, a trove of discoveries awaits you here! A performance from young cellists selected by the tutors marks the culmination of the Cello Masterclasses.
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Concert | CELLOFINALE Abschlusskonzert der Cello-Meisterkurse
For years it has been THE event for cello talent spotters – concluding the Cello Masterclasses, this is a performance from talented youngsters who the tutors say must be heard! Selected masterclass students have the chance to perform the popular cello concertos by Luigi Boccherini and brothers Joseph and Michael Haydn with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Mon 3 October

12.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

Concert

Concert 23

CELLOFINALE
Abschlusskonzert der Cello-Meisterkurse

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, orchestra

For years it has been THE event for cello talent spotters – concluding the Cello Masterclasses, this is a performance from talented youngsters who the tutors say must be heard! Selected masterclass students have the chance to perform the popular cello concertos by Luigi Boccherini and brothers Joseph and Michael Haydn with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
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Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Celloconcerts No.7 in G major G 480 and No. 9 in B major G 482

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Celloconcerts No1 in C major Hob. VIIb: 1 and No.2 in D major VIIb: 2

Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Celloconcert in B major

Chamber orchestra of Stuttgart
Selected master students and master trainees

Kronberg Festival 2022 | “WORK OF ART” TOUR SCULPTURES AROUND THE CASALS FORUM
Music has shape and sometimes shapes are like music – “C major” and “Timbre” are the sculptures created for the Casals Forum by artist Sir Tony Cragg, and the sculpture “Hommage à Pablo Casals” by Walter Schembs watches over them from the neighbouring Victoria Park.
Beethoven-Platz

Mon 3 October

15.00

Beethoven-Platz

Tickets
6 €
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Kronberg Festival 2022

“WORK OF ART” TOUR
SCULPTURES AROUND THE CASALS FORUM

Music has shape and sometimes shapes are like music – “C major” and “Timbre” are the sculptures created for the Casals Forum by artist Sir Tony Cragg, and the sculpture “Hommage à Pablo Casals” by Walter Schembs watches over them from the neighbouring Victoria Park... These short sculpture tours allow participants to get to know the new Casals Forum.
Concert | (H)AUSKLANG
A powerful conclusion to the Kronberg Festival awaits: the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and with soloist Christian Tetzlaff, will fill the Casals Forum with sound right up to the rafters, performing works including Johannes Brahms’s violin concerto and Antonín Dvořák’s symphony “From the New World”.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Mon 3 October

19.45

Casals Forum, Großer Saal


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Kronberg Festival 2022

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Concert 24

(H)AUSKLANG

Frankfurt Radio Symphony, orchestra
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

A powerful conclusion to the Kronberg Festival awaits: the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and with soloist Christian Tetzlaff, will fill the Casals Forum with sound right up to the rafters, performing works including Johannes Brahms’s violin concerto and Antonín Dvořák’s symphony “From the New World”.
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Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Carnival overture in A major op. 92

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Concert in D major for violin and orchestra op. 77

intermission

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor op. 95 „Aus der neuen Welt“

hr-Sinfonieorchester
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor


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Mit Musik – Miteinander 2022 | Mit Musik – Miteinander
Alumni of Kronberg Academy teach and perform chamber music with talented young students.
Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal

Fri 28 October -
Sun 30 October

15.00 - 17.00

Casals Forum, Carl Bechstein Saal


admission free

Mit Musik – Miteinander 2022

Mit Musik – Miteinander

Stephen Kim, violin
Manuel Lipstein, cello
Adrien La Marca, viola

Alumni of Kronberg Academy teach and perform chamber music with talented young students.
Concert for children and teens | Musikerfamilien
We have often experienced that the members of the Ohrwurm family all have something to do with music through their relatives, that is, they are musical.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sun 6 November

14.00 - 15.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Tickets
7 / 15 €
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Classic for Kids 2022

Concert for children and teens

Musikerfamilien

We have often experienced that the members of the Ohrwurm family all have something to do with music through their relatives, that is, they are musical. But whether this is also the case with people, we want to check in the concert. That's why Christoph and the Ohrwürmer have invited some (very) young musicians, together with their string and wind instruments and some parents.
Concert for children and teens | Musikerfamilien
We have often experienced that the members of the Ohrwurm family all have something to do with music through their relatives, that is, they are musical.
Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Sun 6 November

16.00 - 17.00

Casals Forum, Großer Saal

Tickets
7 / 15 €
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Classic for Kids 2022

Concert for children and teens

Musikerfamilien

We have often experienced that the members of the Ohrwurm family all have something to do with music through their relatives, that is, they are musical. But whether this is also the case with people, we want to check in the concert. That's why Christoph and the Ohrwürmer have invited some (very) young musicians, together with their string and wind instruments and some parents.