Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

The Enlightenment celebrated the "aha moment." A whispered "ah!" sufficed for the Romantics. A loving gaze, sunlight in the morning dew – an expression of wonder when the world shows itself from an unexpected side. Immortalized in notes: the horn call in Schubert's “Great” Symphony in C major or the pedal solo of the invisible organ that opens the "Unfinished." Yannick Nézet-Séguin is devoting the first half of the Summer Festival to this kind of Romantic magic – together with renowned soloists and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The artists will present music by Weber, Mendelssohn, and Schubert in its truest light – sometimes dazzling, more often muted. For lovers of grand musical cathedrals, the London Symphony Orchestra performs music by Wagner and Rachmaninoff. And finally a joyous "ah!" and "oh!" – at the meeting of the starsfeaturing Zubin Mehta, Daniel Hope, and Pinchas Zukerman.