Tag: Isarphilharmonie
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…
Munich: Daniil Trifonov in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
This piano recital in the Isarphilharmonie begins quietly, murmuring as if in a dream, with the A minor suite from the “Premier livre de pièces de clavecin” by Jean-Philippe Rameau.…
Munich: The BR Symphony Orchestra under Shiyeon Sung in the Isarphilharmonie – concert review – Munich
It’s brave to start a concert with the “Boléro”, which is traditionally considered one of the bouncer pieces. Especially since Shiyeon Sung increases the crescendo effect: in the extreme, almost…
Munich: Hilary Hahn and the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia in the Isarphilharmonie – Review – Munich
Hilary Hahn and the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia thrilled the audience in the Isarphilharmonie – and conductor Orozco-Estrada announced a surprise for the final piece, Stranvinsky’s “Petrushka”. It’s not often…
Review: Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
When Philippe Jaroussky appears at the end of the Sinfonia with which Johann Adolph Hasse’s “Demofoonte” begins, you are briefly shocked: you don’t know that many gray hairs from him.…
The jazz supergroup “4Wheel Drive” in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
It is the jazz supergroup with German participation par excellence: in 2017, the pianist Michael Wollny, the trombonist Nils Landgren, the bassist and cellist Lars Danielsson and the drummer Wolfgang…
“Tangerine Dream” in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Thorsten Quaeschning has also been with us since 2005 Tangerine Dream, in his announcement before the almost three-hour concert in the Isarphilharmonie, remembered the band’s last Munich appearance in 2014…