Whitsun Festival
At the Whitsun Festival we bridge the gap between Europe and Hollywood. Long ridiculed, film music is now an independent branch of musical modernism. It focuses less on avant-garde and more on applicability, and incidentally familiarises the audience with dissonances and other modernisms. "Cinema" is something like the sun at Whitsun, but there are other planets: Look forward to jazz, chamber music, British and Russian symphonies. Instead of outer space, the festival begins in the inner space of the soul - with a song recital by Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch.
The Program
FR 17.5.24
CAMILLA NYLUND AND HELMUT DEUTSCH
The curtain is raised in the enchanting Baden-Baden Theater! Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch invite you to join them there for a song recital. The Finnish soprano will be heard as Isolde alongside Jonas Kaufmann in the summer. A dramatic soprano, she will sing lieder that develop Wagner's monologues further while demanding a vocal power that can hold its own alongside a concert grand piano.
SA 18.5.24
CINEMA SYMPHONY
SWR Symphonieorchester, Tarmo PeltokoskiLoud, full of effects, often teeming with unforgettable tunes: film music goes back to the massive-scale symphonic writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. So why not combine the two in a single concert? Taking up this idea, young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski is introducing himself to the Baden-Baden audience.
SU 19.5.24
HOLLYWOOD SERENADE
Sonya YonchevaSonya Yoncheva not only has an exceptional voice, but beauty and charisma as well: "star potential" is the buzzword in the industry, and those who have it are bound at some point to cast their gaze toward Hollywood. Today the artist steps on stage as a film diva.
SU 19.5.24
JAZZ FOR THE NIGHT
Frank Dupree TrioSurprises are guaranteed with the Frank Dupree Trio and the musicians of the SWR Sinfonieorchester in Brenners Parkhotel! Let us indulge our imagination: musicians from all different styles and genres happen to find themselves in the same hotel and meet up at the bar in the evening. What happens? After the first drinks, one of them sits down at the bar piano, then the others gradually join in. It promises to be a long and exuberant night full of incredible music.
SA 25.5.24, SU 26.5.24
THE RITE OF SPRING
Teodor Currentzis, SWR SymphonieorchesterWe need only call to mind his CD of The Rite of Spring, which instantly achieved cult status, or one of his concert recordings with the SWR Sinfonieorchester: and yet such “canned music” cannot fully capture the magic of Teodor Currentzis. And so we’re presenting him to you live: Stravinsky's musical earthquake with the conjuror on the podium.