If you want to explore the sound of the Styrian capital in the cultural change of space and time, follow the GrazGuides on a listening adventure through Graz
Elves, fairies, goblins, witches – a dream, a ghostly haunting, set to music by a child prodigy. The 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn’s stroke of genius can be heard together with Fanny’s String Quartet in E flat and three short Kühr quartets.
‘The Show Must Go On’ for Elisabeth Fuchs, the Styriarte Festival Orchestra, the HIB.art.chor as well as Monika Ballwein and Philipp Büttner, this time in Freddie Mercury stereo sound.
In the magnificent sound space of the Helmut List Hall, the exceptional pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard explores the body of his piano with Mark Andre's profound work '... selig ist ...'.
The South African Kristian Bezuidenhout refreshes us on the fortepiano in a liaison with the Consone Quartet. Including Mozart's Piano Quintet K 452 and his Piano Concerto K 415.
The battle of the young enters the next round in the competition between a cappella vocal ensembles for the crown. The audience and the expert jury will choose the winners of the Styriarte Sessions #4!
At the first Palais Attems Vocal Academy, Grande Dame Emma Kirkby introduces the next generation of singers to the techniques of early vocal music with the magnificent 'Cantiones Sacrae' by Heinrich Schütz.
Choir professor Erwin Ortner gets the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and us all in the mood for German folk songs as performed by Brahms, Schubert and others.
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI will devote themselves to the Elizabethan consort songs of William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and others, with six gambas and two voices.
Organ expert Peter Waldner takes us on a voyage of discovery through the sound of the baroque Styrian organ and unearths many a musical treasure from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI and their multinational guests from both sides of the Atlantic will take you on an exhilarating journey around the world in the footsteps of Creole music.
What a virtuoso hit to start the season with Mozart's Oboe Concerto in the hands of the first oboist of the Vienna Volksoper, Katharina Kratochwil. Conductor Tobias Wögerer also brings a breath of fresh air with Johann Christian Bach's exciting Symphony in G minor.
Who could be better suited to the dense mountain of sound of the Bach clan than Bach Prize winner Ursina Braun? In the dark dress of the baroque cello, she performs the daring ride from Johann Sebastian's third Brandenburg Concerto to his first two sons.
In the most poignant corners of France, Mei-Ann Chen presents George Bizet's fiery Carmen, his moving L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 and the unflappable Louise Farrenc's Third Symphony.
Michael Hell will flood the Minoritensaal with the most beautiful pastoral songs from Telemann to Händel in a radiant and masterly performance on the recorder, the harpsichord and the organ, and will crown the evening with Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto.
Together with the Camerata Styria, excellent singers under the baton of Maestro Michael Hofstetter, we will be intoxicated with fantastic highlights from Handel's absolute masterpiece Messiah.
The young star conductor Nil Veditti impresses us with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the fast-paced Sports Show Suite by Shostakovich's favourite student Galina Ustvolskaya.
Master pianist Bernd Glemser lures us into the beauties of Weber's Concerto in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, while principal conductor Mei-Ann Chen brings out the best in Weber's Freischütz Overture and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
Devil violinist Lina Tur Bonet is back to fill the magnificent Minoritensaal with a baroque masterpiece somewhere between Bach in Leipzig and Vivaldi in Venice.
Haydn's magnificent sound paintings of nature, the Symphony No. 6 ‘Le Matin’ and the Symphony No. 59 are conducted by Wolfgang Redik on the violin. In between, Giovanni Bottesini's sinfully heavy second double bass concerto sparkles from the virtuoso hands of Dominik Wagner.
Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon created 'Dance Card' as a tribute to the lyricism and passion of music, and Principal Conductor Mei-Ann Chen immerses us in Rachmaninov's breathtaking 'Symphonic Dances'.
We revel in the beautiful sounds of the Baroque with the oboe magician Alfredo Bernardini from Rome and another European journey in splendour, this time to Bach, Telemann, Fux and Fasch.
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer envelops us from the podium in Edvard Grieg's famous Peer Gynt Suites. This incomparable work of romantic magic culminates in a profound dance with one's own shadow by clarinet genius David Orlowsky.
Conductor Ingmar Beck surprises us at the end of the season with baroque visions of fire, water, earth and air. Violinist Alexandra Tirsu counters with Oscar winner Rachel Portman's touching dream journey through the elements.
