Exclusively streaming on STAGE+ in June 2023:
Albrecht Mayer and the Berliner Barock Solisten play Bach (3/6)
Lang Lang, Daniel Hope, Albrecht Mayer live from Bachfest Leipzig (9/6)
Joe Hisaishi at Vienna’s Musikverein (17/6)
Yuja Wang, LA Phil & Gustavo Dudamel: Rachmaninoff (24/6)
Anne-Sophie Mutter’s 60th Birthday Concert (29/6)
Renaud Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne perform
Mozart live from La Grange au Lac, Évian (30/6)
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Albrecht Mayer and the Berliner Barock Solisten play Bach
Siemensvilla, Berlin
PREMIERE: 03/06/2023, 19:00 (BST)
Repeats: 04/06/2023, 01:00 & 04/06/2023, 12:00 (BST)
Albrecht Mayer and the Berliner Barock Solisten present a programme devoted to music by Johann
Sebastian Bach and two of his sons – as well as Gottfried Heinrich Stölzl’s beautiful “Bist du bei mir”,
formerly attributed to Bach. Bach père is represented by a new arrangement of his Harpsichord
Concerto No. 4, the remarkable Ricercare a 6 from The Musical Offering and the famous Air from the
Orchestral Suite No. 3. Johann Christoph Friedrich, his fifth son, is heard in his bracing Sinfonia in D
Minor while Carl Philip Emanuel is heard in an arrangement of a movement from his G Major
Harpsichord Concerto. This concert was filmed in February 2023.
Tribute to Bach – with Lang Lang, Daniel Hope & Albrecht Mayer
Bachfest, Leipzig
LIVE: 09/06/2023, 18:30 (BST)
Repeats: 10/06/2023, 01:00 & 10/06/2023, 12:00 (BST)
An array of musical stars converges in Leipzig to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johann
Sebastian Bach taking up his appointment as Kantor at the city’s iconic Thomaskirche – a post that
he occupied for more than a quarter of a century, covering a period in which he created many of his
greatest works. Among those performing on a special open-air stage in the city’s market square are
pianist Lang Lang, violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Sophie Kauer and oboist Albrecht Mayer, joined by
the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under current Thomaskantor Andreas
Reize.
Joe Hisaishi in Vienna
Musikverein, Wien
PREMIERE: 17/06/2023, 19:00 (BST)
Repeats: 18/06/2023, 01:00 & 18/06/2023, 12:00 (BST)
Joe Hisaishi, a living legend of film music, directs the Wiener Symphoniker in a concert presenting
music from some of his best-known film scores alongside his Second Symphony. The composer of
music for over 100 films, including many for Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, Hisaishi fuses multiple
styles – from minimalism and electronics to Western and Japanese classical traditions – to create an
inimitable sound world all his own. This concert, filmed in late March 2023, marks a historic
moment, as he presents his music, including the Symphonic Suite from “Princess Mononoke”, in the
sold-out Golden Hall of Vienna’s legendary Musikverein.
Yuja Wang & Gustavo Dudamel: Rachmaninoff Works for Piano & Orchestra
Walt Disney Hall, LA
PREMIERE: 24/06/2023, 19:00 (BST)
Repeats: 25/06/2023, 01:00 & 25/06/2023, 12:00 (BST)
After her critically acclaimed Rachmaninoff marathon in New York, Yuja Wang brings her
characteristic sparkling virtuosity and quicksilver musicality to all the composer’s works for piano
and orchestra in Los Angeles, with support from Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil. Filmed over a
series of concerts in the Walt Disney Hall in February 2023, the performances offer a dazzling
showcase of the pianist’s artistry in works that span almost all of the composer’s career: from the
early passion of the first concerto, through the sweeping romance and swirling intensity of the
second and third, to the mercurial brilliance of two later works: the fourth concerto and the
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter’s Virtuosi —Bach, Bologne, Previn & Vivaldi
60th Birthday Concert
Musikverein, Vienna
PREMIERE: 29/06/2023, 19:00 (BST)
Repeats: 30/06/2023, 01:00 & 30/06/2023, 12:00 (BST)
Anne-Sofie Mutter, who is celebrating her 60 th birthday on 29 June 2023, and her hand-picked
Mutter’s Virtuosi come to the legendary Musikverein in Vienna this month for a varied programme
showcasing their versatility and skill. Baroque is represented by Bach’s celebrated Violin Concerto in
A minor and invigorating Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, as well as Vivaldi’s scintillating Concerto for
Three Violins. From the Classical period, Mutter presents the A Major concerto by Joseph Bologne,
Chevalier de Saint-Georges – one of the most musically fascinating figures of the period – while the
programme is completed by André Previn’s Nonet of 2014, composed especially for the violinist and
her ensemble.
Renaud Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne perform
Mozart
La Grange au Lac, Évian
LIVE: 30/06/2023, 19:00 (BST)
Repeats: 01/07/2023, 01:00 & 01/07/2023, 12:00 (BST)
Live from la Grange au Lac in Évian Renaud Capuçon is joined by the Orchestre de Chambre de
Lausanne for a programme of music by Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 5 and the Symphony No.
40 in G minor. Capuçon is soloist and director in the two concertos, among the finest works of
Mozart’s Salzburg period, and music that forms part of a major new recording project for Deutsche
Grammophon. He then takes up the conductor’s baton for the composer’s dramatic and
impassioned penultimate symphony, composed in Vienna in 1788 – a rousing work to conclude the
concert.
Also coming up on STAGE+ soon:
LIVE: Yannick Nézet-Séguin & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe perform Brahms:
Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (7 July 2023)
LIVE: Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler & Berg, with violinist Augustin Hadelich and soprano
Christiane Karg and the Wiener Philharmoniker live from Salzburg Festival (6 August 2023)