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
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!
Recreation - the CURRENT Season!
But always with charm
There are some long-standing principles at the heart of Recreation. The majority of conductors are female, especially now that Mei-Ann Chen has been our chief conductor for four years. The original sound is the ideal we aim for in the Recreation Baroque series and whenever it seems necessary for Viennese Classicism. But, in all this, creativity is the most important priniciple. In many different ways, we want to express with our orchestra exactly what people feel, sometimes cheerful, sometimes serious, humorous or even tragic, but always with charm.
These principles hold true for Season 24/25, which actually has a secret theme: famous pairs of lovers like Romeo and Juliet, Clara und Robert Schumann and the legendary Chinese Butterfly Lovers. Elsewhere we are as charming as Johann Strauss the Younger on the dance floor, as cheerful as Mozart at Carnival, as serious as Bach in the coffee house and as pious as Humperdinck at Christmas. I hope you will enjoy studying the programmes and enjoy the concerts even more so, in Graz’s most beautiful concert halls.
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