The World's Best Comes to Sydney

Sydney のOpera House はそのユニークな建築様式でも有名ですが，オーストラリアの着実で健全な経済成長を背景に，毎年，世界の有名 Orchestra を招いて賑わっているようですが，今年はFor only the second time in its history, the Vienna Philharmonic returns to Sydney　ということです．多分，サントリーホールのウイーンフィル・ウイークの前後に南半球に回るのではないでしょうか．

指揮は，Christoph Eschenbach，who is currently Music Director for both the National Symphony Orchestra (USA) and the Kennedy Centre in Washington. です．For Baritone Matthias Goerne， studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau，this will be his first visit to Australia. とあります．

For Sydney Opera House, the Vienna Philharmonic concerts are the latest in a series of performances as part of its World Orchestras Program, including the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta in 2008, the London Philharmonic with Vladimir Jurowski in 2009 (which also toured to Brisbane and Perth) and the Berlin Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle in 2010 (which also toured to Perth).　と外国オーケストラ・シリーズの一環だといいます．

“The 2011 concert program features masterworks from the heart of the Vienna Philharmonic’s repertoire: Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ and music by honorary and adoptive Viennese - Brahms, Mahler and Mozart.　“The orchestra is closely associated with the music of Anton Bruckner so it is thrilling that a performance of his epic ‘Romantic’ Symphony forms the core of one of the two programs.”　　とあります．

これからオーストリアや中国と連携して，世界的な音楽家のアジア，太平洋地域への招聘を進めることが出来れば，低成長化する日本でも現在よりずっと手頃なチケット代で，一流楽団を聴けるようになるのではないかと期待するものです．

 

The World's Best Comes to Sydney

April 11, 2011 - 10:10AM

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

For only the second time in its history, the Vienna Philharmonic returns to Sydney

From 29 September to 7 October 2011, the Vienna Philharmonic returns to Australia following the Orchestra’s first ever Australian concerts at Sydney Opera House in 2006. The Orchestra can trace its origins back to 1842 and has received innumerable prizes, gold and platinum record-awards, national decorations and honorary memberships in countries throughout the world.  There is arguably no other musical ensemble more consistently and closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than this world famous orchestra.

This year, the orchestra will be led by renowned conductor and pianist, Christoph Eschenbach. He has been Music Director of the Houston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and is currently Music Director for both the National Symphony Orchestra (USA) and the Kennedy Centre in Washington. Eschenbach is a regular guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Baritone Matthias Goerne studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and is regularly invited to perform with orchestras, in operas and in recitals across Europe and North America. This will be his first visit to Australia.

For Sydney Opera House, the Vienna Philharmonic concerts are the latest in a series of performances as part of its World Orchestras Program, including the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta in 2008, the London Philharmonic with Vladimir Jurowski in 2009 (which also toured to Brisbane and Perth) and the Berlin Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle in 2010 (which also toured to Perth). 

Talking about the this year’s Vienna Philharmonic repertoire, Sydney Opera House CEO Richard Evans commented, “The 2011 concert program features masterworks from the heart of the Vienna Philharmonic’s repertoire: Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ and music by honorary and adoptive Viennese - Brahms, Mahler and Mozart.

“The orchestra is closely associated with the music of Anton Bruckner so it is thrilling that a performance of his epic ‘Romantic’ Symphony forms the core of one of the two programs.”

But perhaps the last word should go to Richard Strauss who said, “All praise of the Vienna Philharmonic reveals itself as understatement.”