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Concerts & projcets

In Kronberg stars of today make music with stars of tomorrow; leading contemporary artists give performances with outstanding next-generation musicians. The concerts, public tuition sessions and public rehearsals all provide opportunities for audiences to become stakeholders in these great musical moments. Get close to music and the artists!

Current event

Year
Month
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
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

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
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

Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
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

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
ZEITSPRUNG
Avital, Jost, Kremerata Baltica, Schmidt

Participants

  • Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt cello
  • Avi Avital mandolin
  • Kremerata Baltica
  • Christian Jost director

Programme

Heinrich Biber (1644–1704)
Battalia

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (version for mandolin and strings)

Christian Jost (*1963)
“Seasons” for violoncello and string orchestra (world premiere)

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
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

Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
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

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
GRENZGÄNGER
hr-Bigband, Partyka, Philippe

Participants

  • Bruno Philippe cello
  • hr-Bigband
  • Ed Partyka director

Programme

Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Selected Works

Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000)
Concerto for Violoncello and Wind Orchestra

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
NEW WORLD
Berlin Academy of American Music, Fenyő, Keast, Martin

Participants

  • Mihaela Martin violin
  • László Fenyö cello
  • Berlin Academy of American Music
  • Garrett Keast director

Programme

Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
An Outdoor Overture

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium”

Anna Clyne (*1980)
Shorthand

George Gershwin (1898–1937)
An American in Paris

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Overture to the operetta “Candide”

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
ERZÄHLUNGEN
Duval, Genisson, Han, Isserlis, Shih, Soulez-Lariviére

Participants

  • Pierre Genisson clarinet
  • Irène Duval violin
  • Sào Soulez Larivière viola
  • Steven Isserlis cello
  • Anna Han piano
  • Connie Shih piano

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Trio, Op. 11 “Gassenhauer Trio”, Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102 No. 1

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Three Romances, Op. 94, Fairy Tales, Op. 132

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Trio in D minor, Op. 120

 

Subject to change

Großen Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival
ILLUMINATION
Bendix-Balgley, Ensemble Resonanz, Minasi, Prohaska

Participants

  • Anna Prohaska soprano
  • Noah Bendix-Balgley violin
  • Ensemble Resonanz
  • Riccardo Minasi director

Programme

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Les Illuminations, Op. 18

Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Elegy

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218

 

Subject to change