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Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K11
KREMERATA BALTICA / GIDON KREMER / LUCAS DEBARGUE / ANDREI PUSHKAREV / PAVEL BELIAEV
Kremer, Debargue, Pushkarev, Beliaev, Kremerata Baltica

Participants

  • Gidon Kremer conducting & violin
  • Lucas Debargue piano
  • Andrei Pushkarev percussion
  • Pavel Beliaev percussion
  • Kremerata Baltica

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major, KV 449

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Four Poems of Captain Lebyadkin, Op. 146 (Arranged by Yevgeniy Sharlat for Violin and Strings – German Premiere),
Three Fragments from the Jazz Suite (Arranged by Alexander Pushkarev for Strings and Two Percussionists – German Premiere)

Michail Pletnev (*1957)
Z-Defilee for Violin, Strings, and Percussion (German Premiere)

Subject to change.

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35 / 45 / 65 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K12
NACHTMEDITATION: THE MINDFUL RECITAL
Namoradze

Participants

  • Nicolas Namoradze piano

Programme

Pianist, composer, and neuropsychologist Nicolas Namoradze draws upon the connection between two powerful forces: classical music and meditation.
Works by J. S. Bach, Debussy, Pärt, and others.

Subject to change.

 

35 / 45 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K13
BACH GOES BIGBAND / HR-BIGBAND / JÖRG ACHIM KELLER
hr-Bigband, Keller

Participants

  • hr-Bigband

Programme

CONCERT INTRODUCTION K13
At the beginning of the concert in the Great Hall with Eckart von Hirschhausen

Subject to change.

25 / 35 / 45 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K14
BROOKLYN RIDER STREICHQUARTETT
Brooklyn Rider Streichquartett

Participants

  • Brooklyn Rider Streichquartett

Programme

Concert on the Theme of Healing with Moderation

John Cage (1912–1992)
In a Landscape (Arr. J. Messina)

Evan Ziporyn (*1959)
From „Qi“: II. Garden

Reena Esmail (*1983)
Zeher (Poison)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
From String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132: „Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart“

Caroline Shaw (*1982)
Schisma

Philip Glass (*1937)
String Quartet No. 4 „Buczak“

Subject to change.

35 / 45 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K15
BEST OF - THE FINAL NIGHTMARE MUSIC / IGUDESMAN & JOO / MUSIKALISCHES COMEDY-DUO
Igudesman & Joo

Participants

  • Igudesman & Joo

Programme

Music, Humor, and Madness – a spectacular show in which Igudesman & Joo look back on their career before saying farewell to the stage at the end of 2025.

6:30 PM, Casals Forum, Great Hall
CONCERT INTRODUCTION K15
What the Music Does to You!
With Prof. Stefan Kölsch

Subject to change.

40 / 50 / 60 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K16
LEBENSSPLITTER IN BRIEFEN / GIDON KREMER & FRIENDS
Gidon Kremer & Friends, Solisten der Kremerata Baltica, Gundars Abolins

Participants

  • Gidon Kremer violin
  • Kremerata Baltica
  • Gundars Abolins actor

Programme

Surprise Program featuring works by well-known and yet-to-be-discovered composers.

Subject to change.

 

35 / 45 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K17
BÜHNENABEND MIT ECKART VON HIRSCHHAUSEN / TANJA TETZLAFF / CHRISTOPH REUTER / KRONBERG YOUNG SOLOISTS
von Hirschhausen, Tetzlaff, Reuter, Kronberg Young Soloists

Participants

  • Eckart von Hirschhausen moderation
  • Tanja Tetzlaff cello
  • Christoph Reuter viola

Programme

The focus of the concert is the connection between music, mental well-being, and planetary health.

Subject to change.

 

40 / 50 / 70 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K18
L’ARTE DEL VIOLINO: BACH UND ITALIEN – BAROCKGALA MIT REINHARD GOEBEL / KRONBERG YOUNG SOLOISTS
Goebel, Kronberg Young Soloists

Participants

  • Reinhard Goebel conducting & moderation

Programme

Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751)
Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 2 No. 4

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Double Concerto in A minor, op. 3 No. 8 RV 522,
Concerto for three Violins in F major RV 551,
Concerto for four Violins in B minor, op. 3 No. 10 RV 580

Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1695–1764)
Concerto in F major for four Violins, Strings and Basso Continuo, op. 4 No. 12

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concerto in D major for three Violins, Strings and Basso Continuo (after BWV 1064)

7:00 PM, Casals Forum, Great Hall
CONCERT INTRODUCTION K18
What the Music Does to You!
With Prof. Stefan Kölsch

Subject to change.

35 / 45 / 65 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K19
VADIM GLUZMAN / EVGENYI SINAISKI / KRONBERG YOUNG SOLOISTS
Gluzman, van der Rest, Lee, Kruithof, Sinaiski, Kronberg Academy Soloists

Participants

  • Vadim Gluzman violin
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Haesue Lee viola
  • Benjamin Kruithof cello
  • Evgeny Sinaiski Piano

Programme

Valentin Silvestrov (*1937)
Five Pieces for Violin and Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

Gábor Varga (*1974)
Hullámzás (Waves) for Violin and Piano (World Premiere, Commissioned by the Kronberg Academy)

Subject to change.

35 / 45 €