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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra set for European tour [音楽時評]

直前のbrog で,破産申請のPhiladelphia Orchestra のタイトなEuropean Tour について書きましたが,それと較べて,いくらかゆったりとした日程で,しかも performing with celebrated violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Helene Grimaud と人気のソリストを加えたEuropean Tour の記事がありましたので,ご紹介します.

日程はLithuania を含むより広範なモノですし,スケジュールも比較的ゆったりしています.9.11 にマーラーの第5番からの葬送行進曲を Berlin で予定するなど,内容豊かです.

何よりも相違を感じたのは,このTour の費用約$2million が,入場料に加えて,各種文化財団からの寄付金で裏打ちされていることです.ご参考までに.

 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra set for latest European tour

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PSO's Manfred Honeck
MIchael Sahaid

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2011 European Festivals Tour

Friday: Wiesbaden, Germany

Saturday: Hamburg, Germany

Monday: Vilnius, Lithuania

Sept. 1 and 2: Grafenegg, Austria

Sept. 3: Lucerne, Switzerland

Sept. 5 and 6: London

Sept. 7: Paris

Sept. 9 and 10: Bonn, Germany

Sept. 11: Berlin

About the writer

Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic

After an intensive week of artistic preparation, music director Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra depart Tuesday on a three-week European Festivals Tour. It will be the orchestra's the fourth international tour with Honeck and its 36th since 1948.

The musicians will play a dozen concerts in nine cities in six countries, performing with celebrated violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Helene Grimaud. Featured symphonic works include the Symphony No. 5 of Gustav Mahler and of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

"This great orchestra has to be part of the international scene to show its fantastic quality and brilliance," says Honeck.

The symphony played to packed houses on its previous European tour in May 2010. The conductor says he's heard audiences are eager to experience it again.

Representatives of the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance will travel with the symphony for the sixth consecutive foreign tour to promote economic development.

The orchestra returned from vacation last Tuesday for rehearsals at Pittsburgh Opera's headquarters in the Strip District and for invitation-only concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. (Heinz Hall is closed this summer for $2 million in renovations, and will reopen in time for rehearsals for the Sept. 17 Gala Concert that starts the 2011-12 season.)

The first tour performance will be on Friday evening in Wiesbaden, Germany. Mutter, who performed with Honeck and the orchestra on tours to Carnegie Hall in New York City and to Europe in 2010, will play two pieces by contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm and Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

After a short trip to Hamburg for a concert on Saturday, the musicians will fly to Vilnius, Lithuania, for a performance on Monday. Then, it's back across Europe for appearances on Sept. 1 and 2 at the Grafenegg Festival, near Vienna in Austria. The Grafenegg Festival's artistic director is pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, who will be soloist with the orchestra at Heinz Hall subscription concerts from Sept. 23 through 25

Honeck and the orchestra will return to the prestigious Lucerne Festival in Switzerland for a concert with Mutter on Sept. 3, followed by concerts at the Proms Festival in London on Sept. 5 and 6.

Grimaud will join the orchestra in London for a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, which she'll also play in Paris on Sept. 7. She made news this summer when conductor Claudio Abbado withdrew from performances with her this summer and fall for artistic reasons.

Concerts at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Germany, on Sept. 9 and 10 will feature Mutter and Grimaud.

The tour concludes at the Philharmonie in Berlin, on Sept. 11 with Mahler's Fifth Symphony -- which opens with a funeral march -- to honor the victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the 10th anniversary.

"It will be exciting to remember the tragedy on this special day," Honeck says. "All Berliners expect that will be a special date, with an American orchestra playing in the capital of Germany."

The tour will cost approximately $2 million, which is fully funded by fees from presenters in Europe, donations -- including the presenting sponsorship of BNY Mellon -- and funds from the Hillman Endowment for International Performances.



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