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Alon Sariel's new album ‘Vienna Mandolin Stories’ (Pentatone) has just been released. It sheds light on the role of the mandolin within the Viennese musical tradition.
Together with the Kölner Akademie under the direction of Michael Alexander Willens, Sariel brings works by Mozart, Haydn, Paisiello and others to new life - including the world's first recording of orchestral works by the composer Ernest Krähmer, which were recently discovered in the Bavarian State Library.
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+ The Alinde Quartet recently gave a concert together with Stefan Heinemeyer at the Logenhaus Berlin, which was broadcast via live stream on YouTube and is now also available online. The programme included music by Hugo Wolf and SJ Hanke as well as the monumental String Quintet in C major, D956 by Franz Schubert.
+ Roland Böer is directing the new production of Richard Wagner's opera ‘The Flying Dutchman’ ("Der fliegende Holländer"; stage director: Anika Rutkofsky) at the Nuremberg State Theatre. The premiere is on 17 May, with performances running until mid-July.
+ The Kammersymphonie Berlin under the direction of Jürgen Bruns presents an extraordinary new cultural format: the "Radio Opera". Inspired by the beginnings of broadcasting in the 1920s, works composed especially for radio will be performed - reinterpreted and experienced live on four evenings in the Chamber Music Hall of the Philharmonie Berlin.
+ On June 18, Gunther Rost returns to the Leipzig Bach Festival for a solo recital. In 2000, the organist, who now teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, was one of the prize winners of the Bach Competition there. Following on from the festival's theme of ‘Transformations’, two of Bach's great keyboard works usually not heard on the organ form the programme this time, the Partita in D major, BWV 828 and the English Suite in A minor, BWV 807.
