Name: Guest performance Groß Schneen
Start: 2025-12-05T20:00:00
Location: Carl Friedrich Gauss School

Göttinger Symphonieorchester

Guest performance Groß Schneen

Carl Friedrich Gauss School

The fact that Pyotr Tchaikovsky himself considered his ballet "Sleeping Beauty" his best – having also composed "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker" – elevates this work to perhaps the finest ballet music of all time. The original title of the fairy tale in Charles Perrault's version, which translates roughly as "The Sleeping Beauty," makes clear what the literary source is about: a 15-year-old girl falls into a sleep that lasts almost a century. Towards the end of his life, Tchaikovsky created a somewhat impressionistic work of dreams, dangers, longings, and passions, which inherently invites one to dance. The ballet school "Art la danse" brings the joy of this to the stage of the Stadthalle.

Sleeping Beauty

Stadthalle Göttingen

Ebenezer Scrooge hasst Weihnachten – er gönnt seinem Angestellten Bob Cratchit nicht einmal den Feiertag und weist Bitten um Hilfe kalt zurück. Auch die Einladung seines Neffen schlägt er aus. Erst als ihm der Geist seines verstorbenen Partners Marley erscheint, beginnt ein Umdenken. Drei weitere Geister führen ihm schließlich Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft vor Augen – und Scrooge erkennt, dass er sein Leben ändern muss. Henrik Albrecht hat aus Dickens’ berühmter Erzählung ein packendes Orchesterhörspiel geschaffen. Patrick Rohbeck und das Göttinger Symphonieorchester lassen musikalischen Weihnachtszauber entstehen – mit Hollywoodklängen, warmen Streichern, festlichen Bläsern und vertrauten Liedern in neuem Gewand.

A Christmas Carol

PS Speicher

Stadthalle Osterode am Harz

Guest performance Bremen

The Bell, Bremen

Who would have thought back then – that this son, born exactly 200 years ago, would one day become a waltz king. One whose works have been among the most performed for what feels like an eternity. One who, in terms of song output, can really only be compared to Michael Jackson or Paul McCartney. Johann Strauss II, the son of his father of the same name, with strong Viennese roots and a heart beating in triple time, created sparkling waltz and polka hits that have stood the test of time and that almost everyone can whistle along to. Not just on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but then with particular zip. Chief conductor Nicholas Milton lives up to his reputation and peppers the program with little interludes from other composers. Cheers!

New Year's Eve Concert – Funkenfeuer

New Year's Concert – Funkenfeuer

Guest performance Amsterdam NL

The Concertgebouw

Spark fire

This concert conducted by Leslie Suganandarajah demonstrates that the USA has much to offer despite current turmoil. The Sri Lankan-born conductor has been Music Director of the Salzburg Landestheater since 2019, where he brings together a broad spectrum of American music.
He begins with Anna Clyne, this season's Composer in Focus of the GSO, followed by the even more recent Trumpet Concerto by the already legendary jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, featuring Selina Ott, born in Austria in 1998, as soloist. And after the interval, a rarity: Florence Price, who made a name for herself at the beginning of the 20th century, was one of the first female composers in the USA.

Blues

What would the orchestral sound be without violas? One only has to experience a Mahler symphony to appreciate the slightly darkened, slightly scratchy sound of this often overlooked string group. In this chamber concert, the viola—as it prefers to be called, more elegantly—can be enjoyed in its purest form and up close. Oksana Labach and Igor Tulchynsky of the viola section of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra put their instrument in the spotlight, performing works by Carl Stamitz, Max Reger, Jean Sibelius, and Jean-Marie Leclair. And the occasional addition of a violin to the stage provides an opportunity to marvel at the special character of its bigger sister by comparison.

Bratschissimo 2.0

GDA Göttingen

Reformed Church of Göttingen

Guest performance in Uelzen

Theater an der Ilmenau

That's what you call fate: While the bassoon is featured prominently as a soloist in many symphonies and operas, explicit solo concertos for this particularly dark woodwind instrument are rare. Carl Maria von Weber, the composer of the rather dark opera "Der Freischütz," wrote a bassoon concerto in 1811: an ideal playing field for the French bassoonist Marceau Lefèvre. The Italian conductor and pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell frames Weber's rarely heard gem with timeless works: Wagner's Ringfarbige Musik der Freude über seinen neuen Sohn Siegfried (Ring-colored Music of Joy over His Newborn Son Siegfried), and Schubert's arguably best-known and unfinished symphony, whose two movements are among the finest of the entire 19th century.