The 18th Grafenegg Festival will take place from August 16 to September 8, 2024. Under the artistic direction of Rudolf Buchbinder, renowned top orchestras and international artists will perform in Grafenegg. Composer in Residence 2024 is the German composer and conductor Enno Poppe.
The Grafenegg Festival will be opened by the Tonkunstler Orchestra on Friday, August 16, 2024. Yutaka Sado, who is taking part in the festival for the last time as chief conductor of the orchestra in residence, will be conducting. The concert celebrates the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth with Arnold Schönberg's late romantic symphonic poem "Pelleas and Melisande", whose work will once again be performed on the last weekend of the festival. Also on the program is George Gershwin, the work of a close friend of Schoenberg: Rudolf Buchbinder plays Gershwin's Concerto in F.
Janine Jansen © Marco Borggreve
Another jubilarian is on the program on the second day of the festival: Anton Bruckner, who will celebrate his 200th birthday in 2024. The Gstaad Festival Orchestra will perform his Seventh Symphony under Jaap van Zweden. Before that, Janine Jansen can be heard in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.
On the first Sunday of the festival, August 18, 2024, the matinee will feature Rudolf Buchbinder as pianist and conductor and the Vienna - Berlin Chamber Orchestra with Frédéric Chopin's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in a version for string orchestra and Dvořák's Serenade for String Orchestra. The rest of the musical day in Grafenegg will be organized by Grafenegg's young resident orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra: an ensemble of the orchestra will perform the Prelude, followed in the evening by the large ensemble at the Wolkenturm with Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" and Richard Strauss' tone poem "Don Quixote" with Nicolas Altstaedt on cello. The viola solo part will be played by a member of the orchestra. Gianandrea Noseda will conduct the European Union Youth Orchestra.
Renaud Capuçon © Simon Fowler
The second festival weekend will be opened on Friday, August 23, 2024, by the Tonkunstler Orchestra and its designated chief conductor Fabien Gabel. Renaud Capuçon will be the soloist in Maurice Ravel's violin sonata in the orchestral version by Yan Maresz and in his rhapsody "Tzigane". Paul Dukas' symphonic poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are also on the program.
Alain Altinoglu © PhotoWerk
The following day, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with Alain Altinoglu will be a guest in Grafenegg. In the first part of the concert, soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller musically slips into the roles of famous Mozart heroines, including Elettra from the opera "Idomeneo". The second half of the concert also has stories to tell when the orchestra plays Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade".
In the matinee of the second festival weekend, the Concentus Musicus Wien with Stefan Gottfried and mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz invites you on a musical journey through Europe's musical capitals: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once fulfilled the specific expectations of Parisian audiences with the Symphony K. 297, while Joseph Haydn wrote the vocal scene "Berenice, che fai?" was written by Joseph Haydn in London, Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito" was composed in Prague for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II and Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 6 was written in and for Vienna.
August 16 to September 8, 2024
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