There is no investor who wants to take over the project with the cost cap of 450 million euros decided by the city council. Now the administration should re-examine all options - another quick tender is out of the question.from Heiner Effern and Anna HobenOne could understand if Max Wagner was frustrated right now. But the managing director of Gasteig GmbH is sitting in his interim office at the interim location in Sendling on Wednesday afternoon and is determined not...
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Rarely have there been so many flowery words at the presentation of a cultural event as at the Flower Power Festival in Munich. But where else could there be more flourishing puns in the nature of things than at the eight-month event dedicated to growing collaborations and thriving inclusion from seed to bloom while celebrating nature in the city. The seeds planted in the wake of the hugely successful Faust Festival five years ago have already germinated with some of...
The Munich Philharmonic offered a program of very different sound worlds in the Isarphilharmonie under the knowledgeable, confident and wide-awake direction of Susanna Mälkki. In their uniqueness, the pieces also appeared like the physiognomies of their creators. It began with Anton Webern's six orchestral pieces op. 6: darkness and the finest sense of sound, allusion and lament in the shortest possible form, orchestral richness in the smallest of spaces and the exploration of piano and pianissimo regions. Webern's music provides...
By Klaus P RichterIn the middle of the cozy Christmas carol season, András Schiff embarks on the extravagant territory of Bach's harpsichord concertos in the Isarphilharmonie. The six concertos BWV 1052 to 1056 and 1058 are arrangements of his own music, including the violin concertos in E major and A minor, but they are the nucleus of our piano concert culture.In doing so, Bach not only follows the musical ethos of his time with the recycling of good ideas, but...
She had a cheeky Goschen - and she was so much more than just Karl Valentin's sidekick. In her new concert show in the Isarphilharmonie, Cornelia Corba devotes herself entirely to the great Liesl Karlstadt, tells the turbulent life of the popular folk actress: about her beginnings in the variety theaters in Munich, about her relationship with the married Valentin, about her solo career at the Kammerspiele and up to the role of Mother Brandl on BR radio. In between,...
With the overture, one could almost think that conductor Gianluca Capuano wanted to remedy the fact that this concert performance of Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" in the Isarphilharmonie begins quite late for the length of the work. He sets a tempo that under the valiantly playing "Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco" something hectic breaks out. Capuano will not consistently maintain this train. Especially not when mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli simply takes the time she thinks is right for her...
Originally, Christian Thielemann would have Concert with Julia Fischer and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in the Isarphilharmonie. Would he have conducted with such composure? This is noticeable with David Afkham at the conductor's podium. In the case of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, it seems that he is mainly concerned with softening the sound and paying particular attention to the quiet, feather-light quality. Beautiful: if it arises from such a soft murmur, the gradual compression of this composition is all the stronger....
Never before in Munich has Melody Gardot been seen strutting across the stage so relaxed and without a cane as on this evening. While she used to have to use a cane at every concert after a terrible accident at the age of 18 when she was run over by a car, this time she floats and strides - cheers for physiotherapy - across the stage of the Isarphilharmonie. The only thing that has remained of her injury is her...
Apart from those who have already heard the album or attended a tour date from the past week - for example at the "Act-Jubilee" three days earlier in Berlin - hardly anyone in the Isarphilharmonie recognized the piece with which Michael Wollny and his trio with Tim Lefebvre on bass and Eric Schaefer on drums started the evening: George Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" came across as almost unrecognizable, mysteriously floating and almost menacing despite its romance. A version that...
