Name: ABBA in Concert
Start: 2025-05-22T19:30:00
Location: Theater Nordhausen

Kick off your year with a spectacular series of events from the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen, offering a diverse musical journey through time and genres. From the transformative works of traveling composers to the vibrant symphonies of classical masters, these events promise an unforgettable auditory experience. Conductors and soloists like Julian Gaudiano, Florian Tavic, and many others will guide you through performances that capture the essence of different cultures and histories, all under the unifying theme of music.

A Musical Odyssey: Exploring Global Sounds with Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

The Loh-Orchester Sondershausen is embarking on a captivating musical journey with a series of concerts that promise to enthrall audiences with their diversity and depth. From symphonic masterpieces to chamber music treasures, and the timeless pop hits of ABBA, these events showcase the talents of esteemed musicians and conductors. Each concert offers a unique experience, celebrating both classical compositions and modern interpretations, ensuring that there's something for every music lover to enjoy.

A Symphony of Diversity: Exploring the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen's Musical Journey

The Loh Orchestra Sondershausen is set to take audiences on a musical journey through an array of captivating performances. From whimsical carnival concerts to powerful symphonic tributes, the orchestra's upcoming events promise an extraordinary celebration of music. Under the leadership of talented conductors and featuring a roster of skilled artists, each concert explores different themes and artistic expressions, ensuring a memorable experience for every attendee. Dive into the world of music with us as we explore these diverse and enriching events.

An Orchestral Odyssey: Exploring the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen's Unforgettable Performances

The Loh-Orchester Sondershausen invites music enthusiasts to a series of captivating concerts celebrating musical heritage and future innovations. From an ABBA tribute to opera and chamber music, these events offer something for every taste. Experience the powerful compositions of celebrated artists, immerse in the fairytale of the 'Magic Flute,' and explore the human spirit through Messiaen's wartime creation. Each concert is a testament to musical evolution, paying homage to the past while looking forward to future possibilities.

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In 2025, a series of concert events will sweep across Germany, bringing together an eclectic mix of musical performances that span genres and eras. From the timeless hits of ABBA to the classical serenades of Mozart and the symphonic masterpieces of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, music lovers will have much to celebrate. With celebrated artists and musicians at the helm, these events promise to offer unforgettable experiences, blending the nostalgic charm of the past with contemporary interpretations. Let's explore the highlights of these anticipated concerts and the talents behind them.

Melodies and Memories: A Journey Through Iconic Concerts in 2025

Svetlomir Zlatkov

Anja Haeseli

Anna Thorén

Markus Fetter

Jörg Neubauer

Loh-Orchester Sondershausen

This year, we're accompanying the Advent season with Italian Baroque music, inviting our audience to enjoy some contemplative, relaxed hours. Rina Hirayama will sing Christmas pieces by such well-known composers as Antonio Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known contemporaries such as Domenico Zipoli and Alessandro Stradella, who was able to imbue his music with such vocal brilliance thanks in part to his own vocal talent. In the second half of the concert, we'll switch to Russian sounds with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Night Before Christmas" and Alexander Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances," thus shifting from an intimate chamber music atmosphere to a festive sonic splendor. Popular Christmas carols for sing-alongs will round off the evening.

Christmas concert

Theater Nordhausen

For the New Year, we extend a heartfelt belated congratulations to the birthday boy of 2025: This October marks the 250th anniversary of Johann Strauss's birth. What could be more fitting than a classical Viennese New Year's Concert featuring Austrian musical delicacies? A few contemporaries such as Franz Lehár and Franz von Suppé, and of course other members of the Strauss family, will also be joining the congratulatory crowd. And as a special "icing on the cake," several vocal works will be performed, such as the Csárdás "Klänge der Heimat" (Sounds of Home) from Johann Strauss's "Die Fledermaus" (The Bat) and the Vilja-Lied (Vilja Song) from Franz Lehár's "Die lustige Witwe" (The Merry Widow).

New Year's Concert

Adventure Mine

Cultural and Congress Center

Octagonal House

Early modernist Paris must have been a fascinating place. Where else in the world did such artistic diversity exist? Musical life oscillated between Impressionism and Neoclassicism, jazz and operetta; there were the "old" artists around Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré, the young artists around the Groupe des Six; there were Russians, Spaniards, and Czechs, and of course mavericks like the legendary Erik Satie. The city was thus a true melting pot and, at the same time, a laboratory of sounds.

3rd Symphony Concert

House of Art

This multifaceted program, full of changing emotions, is characterized by the beautiful combination of a lower female voice or tenor and cello, for which the piano provides the foundation. This foundation is based on Romantic vocal compositions by Johannes Brahms and Peter I. Tchaikovsky, as well as works from other eras, such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Jean Sibelius. Cello and piano can also be heard in duos and solo performances, for example, in pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Mstislav Rostropovich.

2nd Chamber Concert

Heringen Castle

Kunsthaus Meyenburg

St. Crucis

In this nearly one-hour concert format, concert dramaturge Katrin Stöck and a changing chamber music ensemble from the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen present stories with music for children ages three and up (relaxed on cushions if desired) and their accompanying adults. The instruments involved, their sound, and their playing techniques are also presented in an entertaining way.

1. Pillow Concert

Cyriaci Chapel

For Carnival, Shrovetide or Mardi Gras we will take you to Paris, where operetta was born, then travel to Vienna where it continued to flourish and finally to Berlin, which gave the genre a witty and cheeky boost. Included are, of course, compositions by Jacques Offenbach, with whom it all began in Paris, but also by Charles Gounod. Participating in Vienna are Franz Lehár with »Fata Morgana« and Franz von Suppé with the overture to »Dichter und Bauer«. Paul Abraham came to Vienna from Berlin and his performance will be lively with music from »Roxy und ihr Wunderteam«. Leo Fall, finally, came from Vienna and became an operetta star in Berlin, as can be heard in sounds from his »Madame Pompadour«.

Carnival concert

Without music, many movies wouldn't be nearly as exciting, emotional, and humorous as they are with it. Music powerfully draws us into emotional worlds, adds even more thrill to the crooks' activities, and sometimes "knows" more than the characters in the story. Our concert features songs and music from animated films, blockbusters, and famous film sagas, offering something for every taste. We guarantee you'll leave with more than just a catchy tune stuck in your head!

Film music concert

It's a cherished tradition: giving the best participants of the Sondershausen International Masterclass a stage together with the Loh Orchestra. The course is now being offered for the 33rd time, in cooperation with the Thuringian State Music Academy. After three different wind instruments, this year's focus is on the viola. The course's instructor will be none other than Prof. Hartmut Rohde, a founding member of the Kandinsky String Trio and a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Treasures of the viola concert literature from the Baroque period to the 20th century will be heard.

2nd Loh Concert

Düsseldorf, autumn 1853: Music director Robert Schumann had just completed a violin concerto for the young Joseph Joachim when the next child prodigy came knocking at his door: Johannes Brahms. Soulful days full of music followed – until Schumann was committed to a sanatorium in early 1854 after a suicide attempt. The artistic friendship between Joachim and Brahms endured a lifetime, despite occasional bouts of trouble.

4th Symphony Concert

Antonín Dvořák 's famous "Dumky" Trio is the focus of this chamber concert. The dumka, a Ukrainian folk song, is brought to life by the contrast between a subdued mood and cheerful interludes. With a sequence of six dumky, Dvořák impresses listeners with his endless melodic imagination. His trio is flanked by two sonatas for cello, one by Johannes Brahms, who was Dvořák 's great admirer and supporter, and one by Ludwig van Beethoven, without whom Romantic symphonic and Romantic chamber music would be unthinkable.

3rd Chamber Concert

2. Pillow Concert

They convey a "sense of happiness" that "has a doubly soothing effect in these pessimistic times" : this is how the critic-pope Eduard Hanslick once characterized Antonín Dvo ř ák's "Legends," a cycle of poetic miniatures. They were intended as an intimate counterpart to the down-to-earth "Slavonic Dances" and were also a great success. Dvo ř ák's ability to sketch out a story, scene, or atmosphere with just a few strokes seems to have been passed on from him to his compatriots. The younger Bohuslav Martin and the highly talented composer and conductor Vítězslava Kaprálová, who, despite her much too early death, left behind around 50 works and was the first female conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, also mastered the small form.

3rd Loh Concert

With the song "Waterloo", the then unknown Swedish pop band ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton in 1974. This performance was the start of a rapid international career. With "SOS", "Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen", "Thank You for the Music" and "The Winner Takes It All", the four musicians took the hearts of millions of people by storm and the charts around the world. Experience the unforgettable music of a band that wrote pop history like no other!

ABBA in Concert

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