Tag: Isarphilharmonie
Munich: This was Chilly Gonzales’ performance in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
“My friends call me Gonzo,” calls Chilly Gonzales to the sold-out ranks of the Isarphilharmonie before leaving the hall to thunderous applause. Previously he managed to take the very mixed…
Peter Kraus celebrates his 85th birthday in the Munich Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Peter Kraus jokes that he has already played many tours with the band accompanying him, including some farewell concerts. Nobody in the sold-out Isarphilharmonie resents the still astonishingly fit entertainer…
The concert of the Czech Philharmonic in the Munich Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Simon Rattle, chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, will soon be traveling to Prague more often. From 2024/25, it was recently announced that he will also be principal…
Munich: András Schiff and the Saxon State Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Hardly any other living pianist embodies musical foresight, competence and integrity as he does. When he first appears with a microphone to introduce his fellow soloists, whose names are not…
Isarphilharmonie: Simon Rattle throws the bridal bouquet – Munich
So that’s love. Simon Rattle has only been the head of the BR Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the season, but musicians and audiences alike love him. There is…
Julia Fischer and the WDR Symphony Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Romantic music does not have to mean sentimentality, unrestrained rubato bliss, violin sobbing and vibrato tearfulness. The way Julia Fischer impressively demonstrated in Peter Tchaikovsky’s “Sérénade mélancolique” that romantic music…
Pianist Yuja Wang and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
At the end of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” the enthusiasm for the pianist Yuja Wang and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie is immense. This isn’t the most convincing…
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the Isarphilharmonie – Culture
A lot feels different this year at a performance of the six cantatas from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Because it has become anchored in the awareness that there will…
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in the Isarphilharmonie – Culture
It’s a good thing he came back. Because Philippe Herreweghe is the right man for this piece. Hardly anyone else could manage to give Beethoven’s Missa solemnis such a context…
Munich: Khatia Buniatishvilis in the Isarphilharmonie. – Culture
Khatia Buniatishvili is now a pianist who plays full-length at the large Isarphilharmonie. You alone, a darkened hall, spotlights on the Steinway – and almost 2,000 people. Buniatishvili designed her…