Fine performances of two twentieth-century Italian masterworks in Salzburg

AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2024 [3] – Nono and Dallapiccola: Soloists, Bavarian Radio Chorus (chorus director: Peter Dijkstra), Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 25.7.2024. (MB)

Caroline Wettergreen, Freya Apffelstaedt and Robin Tritschler singing in Il prigioniero © SF/Marco Borrelli

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Tempi and time interact on Salzburg’s extraordinary musical journey in Grisey’s Le Noir de l’Étoile

AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2024 [2] – Grisey, Le Noir de l’Étoile: Motus Percussion (Christoph Sietzen, Leonhard Schmidinger, Nico Gerstmayer, Akisato Takeo, Miguel Llorente Gil, Lorenzo Manquillet). Kollegienkirche, Salzburg, 24.7.2024. (MB)

Motus Percussion’s Le Noir de l’Étoile © SF/Marco Borrelli

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The sensational qualities of soprano Olga Peretyatko are confirmed at Mozartwoche Salzburg 2024

AustriaAustria Mozartwoche Salzburg 2024 [6] – Mozart and Salieri: Olga Peretyatko (soprano), Danish Chamber Orchestra / Ádám Fischer (conductor). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 30.1.2024. (MB)

Olga Peretyatko (soprano), Ádám Fischer (conductor) and the Danish Chamber Orchestra © Wolfgang Lienbacher

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In Salzburg: Mozart rightly at centre of three of the supreme masters of the string quartet

AustriaAustria Mozartwoche Salzburg 2024 [5] – Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Hagen Quartet (Lukas Hagen, Rainer Schmidt [violins], Veronika Hagen [viola], Clemens Hagen [cello]). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 30.1.2024. (MB)

Hagen Quartet © Wolfgang Lienbacher

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A mix of the familiar and the considerably less so, is a joy from beginning to end in Salzburg

AustriaAustria Mozartwoche Salzburg 2024 [4] – Mozart, Reicha, and Michael Haydn: Baborák Ensemble (Radek Baborák [horn], Milan Al-Ashhab, [violin], Martina Bačová [violin, viola], Karel Untermüller [viola], Hana Baboráková [cello], David Pavelka [double bass]). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 29.1.2024. (MB)

Baborák Ensemble © Wolfgang Lienbacher

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