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Rostock's chief conductor Marcus Bosch will put down his baton this Sunday morning and will be cooking together with guests in the Kunsthalle's showroom. Two culinary courses will be created and served to the audience. But musical delights can also be experienced while the menu simmers in pots and pans. The Kunsthalle will be happy to accept your registration for this unique musical and culinary morning by calling 0381-4404 0515 or by email to: info@kh-rostock.de.

This time too, you can make your own wishes at the last concert of the popular series, and we will use them to create a varied program.

The sensational Weimar premiere of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 was a long time in the making. Begun during Liszt's virtuoso period and only completed when he had already made a name for himself as a composer of symphonic poems, both are noticeable in the music: the youthful spirit of the piano virtuoso and a sophisticated symphonic orchestral part. The Italian-Croatian pianist Martina Filjak also brings a southern flair, as does the Italian conductor Fabrizio Carminati.

When Bedřich Smetana began writing tone poems, he was probably modeled on the compositions of Franz Liszt, as the latter was well known as the father of the genre. The Bohemian later said that he wanted to outdo the master with his own symphonic poems . Má Vlast goes back to the idea of ​​portraying themes from his homeland in a cycle of tone poems - as an orchestral counterpart to his confessional opera Libussa . Originally intended as a tetralogy, Smetana later composed two more parts. When the complete cycle was premiered in Prague in 1882, the composer, who had since become completely deaf, reaped great success with this work dominated by national themes, which quickly conquered the concert stage with its impressively fresh musical design, especially Moldau , which was often separated from the cycle and performed separately .

A special highlight is to be expected at the end of the Philharmonic season with Raphaela Gromes, probably the most successful German cellist of our time (Rondo Magazine). In 2023, the exceptional artist enchanted around 3,000 listeners with her virtuoso, expressive and technically perfect playing at the annual Classical Night event in Rostock Zoo. In June 2025, she will return with Edward Elgar's famous Cello Concerto in her luggage - the Briton's last major orchestral work with the passionate and at the same time wistful tone. Written in 1919, it is a work of farewell and a look back at a time long gone.