We bid farewell to the old year with the brilliant young conductor Alma Deutscher and the Recreation Orchestra at Graz’s Stefaniensaal - with waltzes, Strauss, Stolz, and a festive concert atmosphere.
The new orchestra season opens with a soaring Russian flourish: Fuad Ibrahimov conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and keyboard magician Kristina Miller unleashes Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.
Recreation Barock celebrates Vivaldi’s Four Seasons this season. To open the cycle, horn virtuoso Christian Binde and violinist Maria Kubizek bring his festive Autumn scenes - along with works by other Baroque masters - into the Minoritensaal.
Like a gripping roller-coaster ride, the American dream unfolds when Mei-Ann Chen, at the podium of the Recreation Orchestra, draws on the full power of cinematic sound. And Michael Hell’s harpsichord shines with unexpected brilliance in the dreamlike concerto by Philip Glass.
The Swiss “magician of the violin” Chouchane Siranossian guides us through every winter soundscape in this Baroque Christmas concert: radiant brilliance, gentle lullabies, and Vivaldi’s icily crackling snowstorms.
With Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Michael Hofstetter and the Recreation Orchestra, together with mezzo-soprano Maria Hegele, tenor Aco Bišćević, baritone Damien Gastl, and the Camerata Styria, usher in the most splendid celebration of the year.
American star pianist Claire Huangci celebrates a double Mozart superlative as she leads the Orchestra Recreation from the piano through his two most imposing piano concertos.
Russian star violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky shines with the greatest hits of the Spanish violin legend Sarasate. Mei-Ann Chen and the Orchestra Recreation surge toward thrilling peaks with Ravel’s Boléro and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Andean music.
With Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony, Wolfgang Redik opens a triumphant Mozart festival as conductor and violinist. The ballet music from Idomeneo follows the Flute Concerto in G, in which rising young star Fabian Egger makes his instrument sing.
Spring awakens as violin master Maria Kubizek, together with the Recreation Baroque ensemble and traverso flautist Annie LaFlamme, fills the Minorite Hall with the joyful bird calls of Bach, Telemann, and Vivaldi.
On the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, Mei-Ann Chen takes the podium of the Orchestra Recreation to conquer his heroic “Eroica”, preceded by the thrilling Overture No. 3 by Emilie Mayer, the Romantic German symphonic poet.
With Weber’s dramatic Clarinet Concerto No. 1, South Tyrolean Andrea Götsch captivates us, before gently softening us again from the podium of Recreation with Schumann’s “Spring Symphony.”
Hot nights await in the Minorite Hall as master oboist Alfredo Bernardini and Maria Kubizek on violin drive Vivaldi’s Four Seasons cycle to a suspense-filled finale, accompanied by the Baroque masters Fux and Platti.
We conclude the Recreation season in a galant style with guitar virtuoso Petrit Çeku, who seduces us with Rodrigo’s dreamlike Guitar Concerto No. 2. From the conductor’s podium, Londoner Paul Goodwin responds with Schubert’s “Tragic Symphony.”
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