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Welcome in 2024 ...
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Let's hope for courage, imagination and success for the musical,
organizational
and financial challenges
in the second half of the season to face the upcoming musical, organizational
and financial challenges.
And if that wasn't challenging enough,
we now have to think art and culture together with the terrible human
catastrophes
in the world, in teh MIddle East and Estern Europe -
not to forget upon the urgent effort to save our beautiful little
planet!
We can only try to remain human with courage, tenacity and confidence
and do our best - even if it is exhausting and often painful ...
I wish us insight and imagination -
and the strength to realize, what is possible and urgently needed.
Art and culture can't do everything in life, but without them
a many few things would be nothing...
Cordially
your's
1.1.2024
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ROBERTO PROSSEDADA
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In May, the last album of
Prosseda's complete recording of all of
Mozart's piano works will be released with the Rondos,
Suites,
Minuets and and small piano pieces.
This will complete his Mozart edition,
which also includes all the sonatas and variations.
DECCA will release the edition in a 10 CD
box set.
In eraly automn, the next new CD,
his
recording of piano concertos by contemporary
Italian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, which he
recorded with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra will be released - among
them the rarely played concerto "Piccolo Concerto for Muriel
Couvrieux" by Luigi Dallapiccola.
In
addition, the worldwide renowed Pedal Piano specialist, is looking forward to
perforn concerts on the new Pedal Piano built
by Chris Maene.
With the new instrument from the Belgian piano maker, who is also known
for the so-called Barenboim grand piano, the 'straight-strung' grand piano, it will
be much
easier and also more economical to present the rarely heard spectacular
instrument
in concert!
Finnaly,
Prosseda
is looking forward to a new project: the recording of Beethoven-Sonatas on an original Graf-Fortepiano from 1820.
In
his
concert calendar in the near future will be recitals
and concerts from his Mozart repertoire, but
also modern and
contemporary music as piano concertos f.e. by Schoenberg (150th birthday in 2024) and Dallapiccola (50th
death anniversary in 2025) His schedule will be completed by an
intenbse revival of concerst and recitasl with his longtime DUO partner, Italian pianist Alessandra Ammara.
And,
of course, there will be concers with 'Phoenix"
a very special composition for piano and
orchestra written for him by Matteo Rubini.
Aside,
he will start a chamber
music series with works of Italian composers to be performed
with his master students and starting with Trios by Muzio
Clementi.
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LUCA LOMBARDI
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Lombardi's composition "Novembernacht" (November Night), a work
commissioned by the Piano Festival Ruhr,
had a highly acclaimed premiere in the frame of the festival in Bochum on June 27, 2023.
Sir Andras Schiff,
for whom Lombardi wrote his composition and to whom it is dedicated,
gave a magnificent premiere performance.
Now, Lombardi is working again on his opera project "Ohra - A Woman on
the Run from a Message" (based on the novel of the same name by David
Grossmann), which he had to put on hold for a while because of other
composition commissions.
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JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE
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Finally: Lemêtre
is online with his own website!
It reveals the musical and intercultural creative work of a great
artist during more than half a century - and its ongoing importance.
The whole range of his music,
which
extends far beyond theater or movie music - from Classical
Music to Jazz
or Klezmer up to his
ravishingy funny Cartoons
or the recently launched series "Raconte-moi...
des musiques" leading Lemêtre around the world beyond
borders - is revealed in a series of videos on the
ART WORKs youtube channel and on Lemêtre's recently launched YouTube
channel "Nomade de la Planète Bleue" - have a look!
To Lemêtres most important
concerns, however, belong his many workshops,
master
classes, seminars and international
conferences, in which he spreads his knowledges and his
large collection of original instruments
gathered from all over the world to pave the way for future generations in the countries of
origin, where some instruments and musical traditions have already been
forgotten or lost, to experience making music with them again.
And he wants to pass on his artistic
experience and knowledge to students, professional stage
artists and interested amateurs within the framework of international workshops, for whose subject matter and
orientation he uses the term "Le Corps
Musical", with which he centers upon the the body as
an instrument of scenic expression.
Workshops
and seminars can also be booked through ART
WORKs.
Together
with a magician and a puppeteer he has formed the Trio Magisterium to create an
idiosyncratic concert program: "Contes
sans Paroles" (Tales without words)
Together
with Lemêtre's music performed on his
instruments inspired by the cultures of the world, the trio
creates feather-light moments of pleasure.
In spring 2024 the 'magic' Trio
will be on tour.
He continues to write music for theater, dance , festivals and Tv and
movies.
Thus,
his soundtrack for the film "Here the Mistral
blows hard" was awarded the Palme
d'Or Cannes 23 for best
film music!
Jjust
now he's focusing on concerts with Live -Music
for silent films.
For his theater music, Lemêtre has invented
own instruments for individual scenes, characters, and areas
of tension, or has reassembled elements of instruments from a wide
variety of epochs and cultures between
Orient and Occident.
Thibault Saladin made the wonderful film "JJ
Lemetre - Musicien Insolite" about this process of
creation, in which Lemêtre explains the development of an individual
new
instrument and then plays it.
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GÜNTER
A. BUCHWALD
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Video footage for all film concerts
Info Silent
movies from Japan |
Before our collaboration with
Günter A. Buchwald comes to an end, we are happy upon a very
special highlight:
the silent film concert "Jewish
Luck", a comedy based on a novel by Sholem Alechem, with
which
the Jewish Culture Days and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg made a
courageous
statement for humanity in the face of the terrible conflict in the
Middle
East - acclaimed by a sold-out hall with long applaudings.
Buchwald and Klezmer clarinettist Helmut Eisel
performed "Fantasy for Jewish Luck",
the score Buchwald composed for the film.
And before our ways will part for good, we hope for a few more film
concerts with Jewish Luck.
And perhaps we can also use our intensive contacts with organizers at
home and abroad to realize long-planned film concerts with Buchwald's music for the French-Russian
silent film "Casanova".
Buchwald's new Casanova music premiered as a film concert under his
direction at the international silent film
festival Le Giornate del Cinema Muto at the end of 2022.
The DVD/Bluray with the restaured version of the
legendary silent film restored by the Cinémathèque
Francaise and set to music by Buchwald,
initially 'produced for the American
market, is expected to be also released in
Europe.
DVD-Democopies of Buchwalds film concerts with
Murnaus "Nosferatu"
and
"Faust", the
Hollywood production "The Wind" and the Japanese silent movies "Sumiko" and
"Express 300 Miles"
are available.
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BETTY OLIVERO
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Video: "Many Waters"
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Olivero's current commissions
include a work for the Boulez Ensemble,
upon which she is working on behalf of Daniel
Barenboim.
In
2023, her composition "Many Waters"
commissioned by the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Konzerthaus
Dortmund opened
the season in Dortmund with the Isreal Philharmonics under the direction of Lahav Shani
and was also performed at the Philharmonie Berlin as part of the Musikfest
Berlin.
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Our last cooperation with
Shlomo Mintz for his performance of the Violin Concerto by Dvorak with Würth Philharmonics was
received with enthusiasm by press and audience:
"If the audience is already thrilled by this
interpretation of Dvorak, it is downright ravished by Shlomo Mintz's
highly virtuosic encore - the Paganini Caprice No. 24."
We're happy, that this cooperation with
Schlomo Mintz, which ended with the beginning of season 23/24 has been
emphasized with this beautiful final event.
Bye, bye Maestro and thank you for
the beautiful moments with your music...
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