Gramophone – September 2019

42 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2019 gramophone.co.uk

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under Hervé Niquet. There is also
a special focus on Reynaldo Hahn.
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Pierre Boulez Saal
The season includes a Schubert
Week, immersions in the music
of Boulez, Ligeti, Stravinsky and
Ustvolskaya and Daniel Barenboim’s
traversal of Beethoven’s complete
piano and violin sonatas (with
Pinchas Zuckerman), as well as
festivals of Arabic music and
concerts for families and children,
all beneiting from the auditorium’s
unique ‘in the round’ architecture.
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Il Pomo d’Oro
The Greek period-instrument
ensemble will continue to tour with
Joyce DiDonato and her War and
Peace programme, visiting numerous
cities in South America and the USA.
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Rotterdam Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev conducts the
season’s opening concert on
September 12 in a programme
featuring Debussy’s La mer and
Ravel’s Boléro. Other standout
concerts include Leila Josefowicz
performing John Adams’s Violin
Concerto, and two Sibelius
programmes under Jukka-Pekka
Saraste. In February 2020, there’s
a much-anticipated Mahler 5
conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The season opens under
Franz Welser-Möst, who conducts
an all-Tchaikovsky evening with
Janine Jansen in the Violin Concerto.
Later on Myung-Whun Chung
conducts Mahler’s Symphony No 9,
Trevor Pinnock takes charge of
Bach’s St Matthew Passion and
past Music Director Mariss Jansons
returns with Strauss, Schubert,
Mendelssohn and Beethoven.
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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Baiba Skride introduces a new violin
concerto by Victoria Borisova-Ollas
at the season’s opening concert
at the Konserthuset, before
Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo
conducts Bruckner’s Symphony
No 4. Elsewhere there is Elgar,
Clara Schumann, Mahler’s

ResurrectionSymphonyNo2,

andNicolaBenedettiinProkoiev’s

ViolinConcertoNo2.

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RTÉNationalSymphony

Orchestra

ChiefConductorJaimeMartín

presidesoverhisinauguralseasonin

Dublin,whichwillseehimconduct

Mahler’sSymphonyNo3, Berlioz’s

Symphoniefantastique, Beethoven’s

SymphonyNo3, Shostakovich’s

SymphonyNo10,andRimsky-

Korsakov’sScheherazade. Robert

TrevinoconductsElgar’sTheDream

ofGerontiuswhilePrincipalGuest

ConductorNathalieStutzmangoes

bigwithStraussandBruckner.

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StPetersburgPhilharmonic

TheseasonopensinSeptember

withthe12thElenaObraztsova

Competitionforyoungsingers,

beforeJanLatham-Koenigconducts

a programmeofBritten,Vaughan

WilliamsandRachmaninov.Felix

Korobov,VladimirPopov,Nikolay

Alexeevandotherstaketothe

podiumthereafterwhileMusic

DirectorYuriTemirkanovconducts

Shostakovich’sPianoConcertoNo 1

onthecomposer’sbirthday.

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SemperoperDresden

NewproductionsinDresden

includeRossini’sIl viaggioa Reims

directedbyLauriScozzi,Wagner’s

DieMeistersingervonNürnberg

directedbyJens-DanielHerzog

(withChristianThielemanninthe

pit),CalixtoBieito’sproductionof

Ligeti’sLegrandmacabreanda

newMadamaButterlydirected

byAmonMiyamoto.

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StaatskapelleDresden

SolGabettais Artist-in-Residence

forthe201920season,during

whichshewillplaytheSchumann,

Saint-SaënsandShostakovich

FirstConcertos.AribertReimann

contributesthreeworksas

Composer-in-Residence,including

a newscoreinmemoryofRobert

Schumann,whileMusicDirector

ChristianThielemannfocuses

ontheseason’sbiganniversary

composer,Beethoven.

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TapiolaSinfonietta

TheTapiolaSinfoniettaembarks

upona thoroughprogramme,

rangingfromchambermusicto

Bizet’sCarmen. Theensemble

collaborateswithseveralwidely

respectedsoloists,including

sopranoCarolynSampson

andviolinistRachelPodger.

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LesTalensLyriques

Ina seasontitled‘TheNations’,

ChristopheRousset’sensemble

will celebrate European diversity.

Works by Johann Sebastian and

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach will

join those by Handel to prove

just to what extent composers

of the Baroque could adapt their

styles to dierent lands, and the

ensemble will play for Monteverdi’s

L’incoronazione di Poppea in the pit

of the Paris Opera. It will also travel

from Colombia to Japan on tour.

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Teatro alla Scala

The season in Milan opens with

Davide Livermore’s To s c a under

Riccardo Chailly’s baton. Later

highlights include Damiano

Michieletto’s production of Salome,

Robert Carsen’s Semele and two

productions from the collective

La Fura dels Baus: Wagner’s

TannhäuserandProkoiev’sThe

LoveforThreeOranges, conducted

byÁdámFischerandCarloRizzi.

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TeatroReal

Domingo,DiDonato,Camarena

andJarousskyareamongthe

headlinenamesthisseasonat

Madrid’sRoyalTheatre,whilenew

productionsincludeReimann’sLear,

Mascagni’sIris, Bellini’sIl pirataand

a rareoutinginSpainforWeinberg’s

ThePassenger.TheRingcontinues

withDieWalküre.

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ViennaPhilharmonic

DanielHardingopenstheseason

attheMusikvereinwithSibelius’s

SymphonyNo4. Laterin the

season,ValeryGergievconducts

Rimsky-Korsakov’sScheherazade,

ChristophEschenbachtakescharge

ofSchoenberg’sarrangement

ofBrahms’sPianoQuartetNo1,

MatthiasGoernesingsMahlersongs

andChristianThielemannpresents

Bruckner’sSymphonyNo8.

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ViennaStaatsoper

Hindemith’sCardillacmakesa rare

appearanceattheStaatsoperthis

seasonin a productionbySven-Eric

BechtolfconductedbyMichael

Boder.Britten’sA MidsummerNight’s

Dream, OlgaNeuwirth’sOrlando,

Saint-Saëns’sSamsonetDalilaand

Eötvös’sTriSestriareonthebillin a

seasonthatincludesa fullRingcycle.

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Cellist Sol Gabetta is the new Artist-in-Residence at Staatskapelle Dresden

PHOTOGRAPHY:

JULIA WESELY