Recreation
Recreation with Recreation! The most beautiful journeys into the universe of classical music are on the way. With your orchestra: an enthusiastic group of musicians who become one every evening and bring the brightest ideas of composers to life.
Programme
Recreation - the NEW Season!
Relaxation with Recreation
In the real world, tensions between powers are growing daily and breathtakingly. In the beautiful refuge of our concert halls, we focus on relaxation and reflect on the benefits of collaborating with others. Starting with the very first note: Stravinsky wrote his “Firebird” for the Ballets Russes in Paris. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 premiered in Boston, played by the German Hans von Bülow. And Mei-Ann Chen, our Taiwanese chief conductor, recently appointed professor of conducting at one of America’s most prestigious music schools, the Manhattan School of Music, shares many inspiring stories in the new Recreation season, conducting several works by great female composers.
She presents Ravel’s Bolero and Barber’s Adagio, as well as the Eroica for the Beethoven anniversary year 2027. Claire Huangci performs Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 24 and 25 as soloist/conductor. And yet another soloist reveals her talents as a brilliant conductor: Andrea Götsch, clarinetist with the Vienna Philharmonic. Right before Christmas, Michael Hofstetter returns to the Recreation podium to celebrate Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
In the series Recreation Baroque, violinists Maria Kubizek and Chouchane Siranossian follow Vivaldi’s Four Seasons through the year. And Christian Binde and Alfredo Bernardini provide wind instrument brilliance on the horn and oboe.
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Recreation - the CURRENT Season!
YOUNG. COLOURFUL. FEMALE.
Fantastic young musicians from Austria are leaving their mark on our new season. Oboist Katharina Kratochwil plays Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, double bass player Dominik Wagner the second Bottesini concerto. Moldovan violinist Alexandra Tirsu also studied in Vienna. Conductors Tobias Wögerer and Ingmar Beck come to us from Linz, cellist Ursina Braun and conductor Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer from Switzerland. Recreation’s orchestral concerts are creating a stage for the younger generation, also and especially for women on the podium.
This season’s programmes are seductive, sporty and elegant: our chief conductor Mei-Ann Chen dedicates one evening to the immortal opera character Carmen, another to the symphonic dances of Jennifer Higdon and Sergei Rachmaninov. Russian Galina Ustvolskaya called her orchestral suite “Sport” – a fitting answer to Tchaikovsky’s powerful Fifth in Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti’s programme. Rachel Portman is the only woman to have received the Oscar for Best Original Score. Her violin concerto on the four elements, which will be performed at the season finale, is worthy of a film. Or to put it in a nutshell: “Recreation of the mind” is guaranteed at all concerts!
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