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Nature in music
The "Encounter" Festival will be held in Salzburg for the ninth time in May 2008. Entitled "Nature,“ this year's encounter will include works by Vivaldi, Schumann, Respighi and Beethoven. Leonidas Kavakos has been the Camerata Salzburg's artistic director since August 2007.
Kavakos will add a new dimension to the overall repertoire and program composition. The "Encounter" Festival, founded by Sándor Végh, offers orchestral works, chamber music and solo compositions. The opening concert on May 16 will include Honegger's Pastoral d’été pour petite orchestre, Beethoven's Tempest sonata, Op. 31 no. 2 (with Dénes Várjon) and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Op. 68. The second concert on May 17 will have Respighi's Gli ucelli, his Poema autunnale and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (with Benjamin Schmid as the soloist) on the program.
Program outline -
May 16, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Salzburg/Mozarteum, Large Hall
Arthur HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Piano sonata "The Tempest"
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastoral Symphony
Leonidas Kavakos, conductor
Dénes Varjon, piano
May 17, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Salzburg/Mozarteum, Large Hall
Final rehearsal open to Encounter subscribers
(May 18, 2008 program)
May 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Salzburg/Mozarteum, Large Hall
Ottorino RESPIGHI: Gli uccelli (The Birds)
Ottorino RESPIGHI: Poema autunnale
Antonio VIVALDI: The Four Seasons
Benjamin Schmid, violin
May 18, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Salzburg/Mozarteum, Large Hall
Georg Philipp TELEMANN: Overture in C major
Heinrich Ignaz Franz BIBER: Sonata Violino Solo Representativa
Franz SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 in B major, Op. 38 "Spring Symphony"
James Gaffigan, conductor
Florian Birsak, harpsichord
The chamber music is played by members of the Camerata Salzburg.
Tickets are available at the International Mozarteum Foundation's ticket office.
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