Switzerland Dubugnon, Connesson, Saint-Saëns: Christian Schmitt (organ), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 23.9.2021. (JR)
Saint-Saëns mighty Organ Symphony inaugurates Zurich Tonhalle’s new organ
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Magnificent Mahler’s Third Symphony inaugurates Zurich’s renovated Tonhalle
Switzerland Mahler: Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Zürcher Sängerknaben (Konrad von Aarburg, Alphons von Aarburg, chorusmasters), Ladies of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie (chorusmaster Florian Helgath, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 16.9.2021. (JR)
New production of Salome overwhelms in Zurich
Switzerland Richard Strauss, Salome: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Simone Young (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich. 12.9.2021. (JR)
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in 2021/22
New Season’s Preview: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich 2021/2022
The Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich has just announced its new season’s programme. The orchestra moves back into its splendidly renovated old hall, the Tonhalle, down by the lake. It has taken four years to re-paint, re-gild, put in a new floor, seats, air-cooling and humidity system, create a terrace with a view of the lake and the Alps and modernise backstage. A new organ has been installed, and I can testify it sounds magnificent. Everyone looks forward to the opening of the new season, in the ‘new old hall’. ‘See you am See’ (See you by the lake) is the orchestra’s current slogan – typically, partly in English, partly in German.
Business-as-usual mediocrity instead of post-Covid risk-taking: Gürbaca’s Lucia is way off the mark in Zurich
Switzerland Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 26.6.2021. (CCr)
Bychkov returns to Zurich with five-star Tchaikovsky and a Dessner world première
Switzerland Dessner, Tchaikovsky: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 24.6.2021. (JR)
Fabio Luisi bids a fond farewell after nine successful years at Zurich Opera
Switzerland Bruckner: Philharmonia Zurich / Fabio Luisi (conductor). Zurich Opera House, 19.6.2021. (JR)
Bruckner – Symphony No.7 in Emajor
Herbert Blomstedt continues his championing of Stenhammar in Zurich
Switzerland Stenhammar: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Herbert Blomstedt (conductor). Tonhalle Maag, Zurich 18.6.2021. (JR)
