• Mon. 08.05.
  • 8.00 p.m.
  • Frankfurt/Main
    ·Alte Oper

Works by Haydn and Schumann

Programme

    • Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
    • Symphony No. 93 in D major Hob I:93
    • Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
    • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in A minor op. 129
    • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 104 in D major Hob I:104 ›London‹

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.

Violoncello

Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta is as welcome a guest with the major international orchestras as in the world’s major concert halls and at the most important festivals. Highlights from recent seasons include her celebrated residencies with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberg Symphoniker, her brilliant performance with Eun Sun and the Orchestre National de France and concerts with Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker. In 2020 she premiered the ›Concerto en Sol‹ composed for her by Wolfgang Rihm. In 2018 in her role as ›Artiste étoile‹ at the Lucerne Festival, she joined forces once again with Franz Welser-Möst and the Wiener Philharmoniker, François-Xavier Roth and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and also with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her chamber music projects are also in worldwide demand such as in New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Rhiengau Music Festival and the Bonn Beethovenfest. A large network of eminent musicians appears at Switzerland’s Solsberg Festival, founded by Sol Gabetta and directed by her since its inception in 2006. This Argentinian cellist has received numerous awards for her outstanding artistic activities, including the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Osterfestspiele 2018 and the Opus Klassik ›Instrumentalist of the Year‹ Award 2019. Sol Gabetta has worked with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.