Dear Friends,
June has arrived, bringing the fine weather with it at last, heralding a summer of musical celebrations to treasure. A series of birthdays will give me the chance to celebrate Schumann (200th anniversary), Mahler (150th anniversary), and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival's 25th anniversary; but also, some dear friends will be joining me and making music together for my seventieth summer....
Schumann will be honored in Düsseldorf at the beginning of June (Schumann Fest), and also in Dortmund (Ruhr Klavier-Festival), Hamburg, Lübeck, and Neubrandenburg. I'll be meeting up with my dear friend and long-time musical collaborator Tzimon Barto for a series of concerts, which will give me the chance to introduce to you the Schumann program which we have recorded for Ondine, in particular the arrangement of the two large concert pieces opus 92 and opus 134 with the "Geistervariationen" as a slow middle movement. In such combination, these pieces make a kind of "imaginary piano concerto" in three movements. We will perform the same repertoire at the Salzburg Festival on August 21 and 22 with the Vienna Philharmonic. Also in June, I will be marking the end of my ten years as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It is going to be a moving farewell to my friends, the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris. The summer will continue with the wonderful orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Academy on tour in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Germany with Mahler's First Symphony and Mozart's Symphony No. 34. I am also looking forward to conducting the remarkable Czech Philharmonic in Mahler's Second Symphony "Resurrection" on July 7 in Prague, on the very day of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. My tour with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra will continue with more Mahler in Wiesbaden, Hamburg, and Lübeck, including two performances of the Rückert Lieder with baritone Thomas Hampson as soloist. On Sunday July 18, lots of musician friends and brilliant young talents are joining me at Salzau to celebrate my seventieth summer in music. In one exhilarating day, beginning at 11 am and lasting late into the night, nine marvelous soloists will be accompanied by me either on piano or with the SHMF Orchestra, the Sirba Octet will round off the evening concert with their delectable and rhythmical repertoire "Du Stetl à New York". By then, it will be time to join Chicago and the great Ravinia Festival where the lineup includes four concerts and in particular a Lied Recital with Matthias Goerne, an evening with Renée Fleming and Tzimon Barto, and another concert with the brilliant Leonard Elschenbroich and Erik Schumann. And I'm going to have the pleasure of playing the solo part in Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major, KV 414 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of John Axelrod. On August 15 we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the SHMF in Kiel with a gala program and some very special guests including Midori, Matthias Goerne, and Justus Frantz. My summer will have been bursting at the seams with music, and after a few days in Salzburg it will draw to a close in Wotersen, Rendsburg, and Rellingen, with the phenomenal Matthias Goerne and three cycles of Schubert Lieder, and myself at the piano performing the Schubert B flat major Piano Sonata, D. 960.
Dear Friends, I hope our paths cross at some time during this "summer of anniversaries" so we can celebrate together and above all, celebrate music!
Christoph Eschenbach
Between June 6th and 13th, Christoph Eschenbach will embark on a tour of five German cities. Joined by piano soloist Tzimon Barto, he will be performing with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker at the Schumannfest in Düsseldorf (June 6th), and with the NDR Sinfonieorchester in Hamburg (11th), Lübeck (12th), and Neubrandenburg (13th). Together, they will present a "piano concerto arrangement" of three late Schumann works, which they have recorded for a CD released by the Ondine label in February 2010. Christoph Eschenbach and Tzimon Barto will also appear in a piano duo recital at the Ruhr Klavier-Festival in Dortmund (June 7th). On the 200th birthday of Robert Schumann on June 8th, Christoph Eschenbach will conduct the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker in Düsseldorf, with Saleem Abboud Ashkar a soloist in the Schumann Piano Concerto.
Free Video Streaming of The Complete Mahler Symphonies Ninth Symphony To Become Accessible on June 15th
In connection with the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth, as well as Christoph Eschenbach's 70th anniversary in 2010, christoph-eschenbach.com, in collaboration with the websites of the Orchestre de Paris and Medici TV each offer a unique free streaming experience of all of Gustav Mahler's Symphonies. On the 15th of each month, a new symphony of Gustav Mahler is being put online for free streaming at mahler.christoph-eschenbach.com. Since February 2010, the Symphonies No. 2 "Resurrection", No. 6, No. 1, and No. 8 "Symphony of a Thousand" have been made accessible, to be followed by Symphony No. 9 on June 15th. By October 15th, 2010 the complete symphonies will be online for streaming and remain accessible until at least July 2011. Each symphony was recorded with the Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach and filmed by the director François Goetghebeur.
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Dusseldorf, Germany |
| JUNE | 7 | Piano Duo Recital | Dortmund, Germany | |||
| JUNE | 11 | NDR Sinfonieorchester | Hamburg, Germany | |||
| JUNE | 12 | NDR Sinfonieorchester | Lubeck, Germany | |||
| JUNE | 13 | NDR Sinfonieorchester | Neubrandenburg, Germany | |||
| JUNE | 16-17 | Orchestre de Paris | Paris, France | |||
| JUNE | 26 | Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Vatican City, Vatican City | |||
| JULY | 1 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Krakow, Poland | |||
| JULY | 2 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Budapest, Hungary | |||
| JULY | 3-4 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Prague, Czech Republic | |||
| JULY | 7 | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Prague, Czech Republic | |||
| JULY | 12 | Artist Talk | Oestrich, Germany | |||
| JULY | 13 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Wiesbaden, Germany | |||
| JULY | 14 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Hamburg, Germany | |||
| JULY | 16 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Lubeck, Germany | |||
| JULY | 18 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Salzau, Germany | |||
| JULY | 22 | Lied Recital | Ravinia, IL, USA | |||
| JULY | 23-25 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Ravinia, IL, USA | |||
| AUGUST | 13 | Chamber Concert | Altenhof, Germany | |||
| AUGUST | 15 | Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra | Kiel, Germany | |||
| AUGUST | 17 / 20 | Lied Recital | Salzburg, Austria | |||
| AUGUST | 19 | Lecture | Salzburg, Austria | |||
| AUGUST | 21-22 | Wiener Philharmoniker | Salzburg, Austria | |||
| AUGUST | 22 | Piano Duo Recital | Lenzing, Austria | |||
| AUGUST | 23 | Lied and Piano Recital | Salzburg, Austria | |||
| AUGUST | 25 | Lied and Piano Recital | Wotersen, Germany | |||
| AUGUST | 27 | Lied Recital | Rendsburg, Germany | |||
| AUGUST | 28 | Lied Recital | Rellingen, Germany |
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The Second (Brahms Symphony) has rarely arrived with such a welcome rush of relief and reassurance as it did during Wednesday's San Francisco Symphony concert (...). (In) a vibrant, rich-toned account of this work (...) Eschenbach successfully resisted any temptations to inflate the musical rhetoric of the piece, keeping things light, lively and tender throughout.
ClassicsToday.com (May 2010; on a recent Mahler CD release by Capriccio)
This is (...) a lovely, fresh, and youthful-sounding Mahler First, abounding in idiomatic feeling and athmosphere.
Gramophone (June 2010; on a recent Schumann CD release by Ondine)
Eschenbach and Barto (...) make a delightful partnership in another score (the Six Etudes in Canonic Form, Op. 56) that does not merit its current neglect.
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Introduction & Allegro appassionato
Geistervariationen
Introduction & Concert-Allegro
Six Etudes in Canonic Form (arr. for two pianos by Claude Debussy)*
Tzimon Barto, Piano
NDR Sinfonieorchester
Christoph Eschenbach, Piano*
CD Ondine ODE 1162-2
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