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Current event

Category
Location
Year
Month
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Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K1
FANTASIE & MUT
hr-Sinfonieorchester, Leleux, Montero

Participants

  • Gabriela Montero piano
  • Francois Leleux director
  • hr-Sinfonieorchester

Programme

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
Symphony No. 2 “Symphonic Fantasy”

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival
IRONIE & ILLUSION
hr-Sinfonieorchester, Leleux, Montero

Participants

  • Edgar Moreau cello
  • Francois Leleux director
  • hr-Sinfonieorchester

Programme

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L 86

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 “Classical Symphony”

 

Subject to change

Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K3
C WIE COURAGE
Hecker, Helmchen, Helmerson, Maintz

Participants

  • Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello
  • Frans Helmerson cello
  • Jens Peter Maintz cello
  • Martin Helmchen piano

Programme

Sarvenaz Safari (*1984)
“C wie …”

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008

György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Sonata, Op. 28

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op.38

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sonata in C major, Op. 119

 

The concert is dedicated to Emanuel Feuermann, Jacqueline du Pré and Mstislav Rostropovich.

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K4
STRAHLKRAFT
Lyniv, Moser, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Participants

  • Johannes Moser cello
  • Oksana Lyniv director
  • Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Programme

Édouard Lalo (1823–1892)
Concerto in D minor

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K5
WUNDER & WEGE
Hampson, Lyniv, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

Participants

  • Thomas Hampson Baritone
  • Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
  • Oksana Lyniv director

Programme

Yuri Laniuk (*1957)
Elegy for Large Orchestra (Message to A. G.) (world premiere)

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Songs from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Peer Gynt Suites No. 1, Op. 46 and No. 2, Op. 55

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K6
VERSPIELT
Kim, Korean Chamber Orchestra, Lim, Várdai

Participants

  • Ji Young Lim violin
  • István Várdai cello
  • Min Kim director
  • Korean Chamber Orchestra

Programme

Jisoo Lee (*1969)
Jindo Arirang (Theme on Traditional Korean Folk Music)

Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)
Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major, G 482

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, Op. 62

Christoph W. Gluck (1714–1787) & Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Melody from “Orfeo ed Euridice”

Franz Waxman (1906–1967)
Carmen Fantasy

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Serenade in E major, Op. 22

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 / 65 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K7
FÜR CASALS
Hoffman, Im, Mun, M. Shaham, N. Shaham, Swensen

Participants

  • Anna Im violin
  • Michael Shaham violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • Nicholas Swensen viola
  • Gary Hoffman cello
  • Chloe Jiyeong Mun Piano

Programme

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
From Jewish Life, B 54

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58

Pablo Casals (1876–1973)
Rêverie

Gaspar Cassadó (1897–1966)
Requiebros

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 / 65 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K8
HERZBLUT
Fernandes, Kanneh-Mason

Participants

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
  • Plínio Fernandes Guitar

Programme

Radamés Gnattali (1906–1988)
Sonata

Leo Brouwer (*1939)
Sonata “The Magic Space”

Rafael M. Arcaro
Élegie à une mémoire oubliée

Manuel de Falla (1876–1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K10
SERENADE & SARKASMUS
Helmchen, Kremerata Baltica, Kremer, Nakariakov, Van der Rest

Participants

  • Sergei Nakariakov trumpet
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Martin Helmchen Piano
  • Kremerata Baltica
  • Gidon Kremer conducting & violin

Programme

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Serenade No. 6 in D major, K. 239 “Serenata notturna”

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

Alisson Krussmaa (*1929)
New composition - Title to be announced

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 / 65 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kronberg Festival - K11
GLOBAL GROOVES
CelloFellos: Cheng, Disselhorst

Participants

  • Bryan Cheng cello
  • Leonard Disselhorst cello

Programme

Leonard Disselhorst (*1976)
Kingfisher, The Drift, Jasmine Ode

Tigran Hamasyan (*1987) & Howard Shore (*1946)
Toichis Mountains

Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Such Sweet Thunder

Herbie Hancock (*1940) & Bobby McFerrin (*1950)
Turtle Shoes

Mariano Mores (1918–2016)
Taquito Militar

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Nightclub

Traditional medley of Romanian themes

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 BB 68

Milena Dolinová & Kryštof Mařatka (*1972)
Čsardáš III

 

Subject to change

Tickets
35 / 45 €