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El Cimarrón Ensemble

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Luca Lombardi

Storia di Giona

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Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh.

Dedicated to the El Cimarrón Ensemble
For baritone, percussion, guitar, flute
Language: Italian, surtitles: German
First performance: December 2009, Hallein, Kulturforum (Ziegelstadl)
Duration: 35 minutes

availability upon request
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Photo: Bernhard Gál

Klangschatten II - Austrian music for children

In Klangschatten II, Austrian instruments for children are featured within a multimedia scenario. New compositions from Bernhard Gál, improvisation and live electronics as well as traditional Austrian music are partly performed behind translucent screens and thus only visible as moving shadows within colored light. An exciting experience!

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Dancer: WANG Wei-ming
Photo: YU Hui-hung

Songs of the Wanderers

"... a work about practicing asceticism, the river's mildness, and the quest for quietude." (Lin Hwai-min)

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan has done much wandering of its own, performing Songs of the Wanderers on stages throughout the world for years. Currently, Lin Hwai-Min and his dancers are rediscovering the piece through the addition of live music. The georgian Rustavi Choir, lauded by UNESCO as a preserver of the oral and immaterial legacy of mankind, performed for the first time with the dance troupe at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. The choir's powerful polyphonic song was moving both dancers and audience. ...more

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Photo: Liu Chen-Hsiang

Water Stains on the Wall

available: May/June/Nov 2012 and May-Aug 2013

A legend about two Masters of brush writing in the Tang Dynasty established “water stains on the wall” as a popular metaphor that represents the highest state in the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy. Choreographer Lin Hwai-min and Asia’s leading contemporary dance company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan take off from this metaphor creating an abstract work of beauty and magic that stands sublimely on its own. ...more

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Heinz Holliger
Photo: Priska Ketterer

Stuttgart RSO with a special programme on the occasion of Heinz Holliger's 75th birthday

25-27 October 2014



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Leif Ove Andsnes
Photo: Özgür Albayrak

Stuttgart RSO: summer 2014

Available dates in June with Håkan Hardenberger & Krzysztof Urbański and in July with Leif Ove Andsnes and the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under Stéphane Denève. 
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Sir Roger Norrington
Photo: Manfred Esser

Available dates in 2014/15

In the season 2014/15, Stuttgart RSO will be available with great artists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Sir Roger Norrington and Truls Mørk.

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Lise de la Salle
Photo: Marco Borggreve

Stuttgart RSO: Summer 2015

Concerts with Herbert Blomstedt, Julia Fischer, Michael Sanderling and Lise de la Salle.
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Andreas Staier
Photo: Josep Molina

Mozart's early works: La Chambre Philharmonique and Andreas Staier

End of february 2014, dates upon request


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La Chambre Philharmonique on tour with Michèle Losier and a Berlioz programme

Available dates: 25 May - 1 June 2014/ 20 - 30 August 2014

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Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Photo: Florence Grandidier

A cappella Christmas and Bach Magnificat

9 / 10 December 2013
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
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Photo: Giorgia Bertazzi

Camerata Bern with Christian Tetzlaff

Available dates: 20 & 21 June 2014
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Antje Weithaas, violin and direction

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Jörg Widmann
Photo: Felix Broede

Camerata Bern featuring Jörg Widmann

5 - 10 May 2014
In Spring 2014 Jörg Widmann will be the Camerata Bern's special guest at Bern featuring a wonderful programme both as composer as well as musician. We are delighted to offer further available dates for guest performances. ...more

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Beethoven CD
Cover: AVI

50 years Camerata Bern! Touring programme with Beethoven

dates upon request
Antje Weithaas, violin

In spring of its Jubilee Season 2012 the Camerata Bern will focus on Beethoven's music. Artistic director and exceptional violinist Antje Weithaas will perform the concerto for violin in D major. Furthermore, a commissioned work by Swiss composer Martin Wettstein will be preceded Beethoven's eighth symphony. ...more

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Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Photo: Florence Grandidier

A cappella Christmas and Bach Magnificat

9 / 10 December 2013
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor
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El Cimarrón

Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger
In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104. ...more

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Luca Lombardi

Storia di Giona

Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: James Matthew Daniel

Elsewhere

The cellist Maya Beiser has consistently challenged our conception of the traditional cello recital and of traditional cello repertoire through her multi-media performances featuring works commissioned especially for her.  Her newest project, Elsewhere, continues the trajectory into unchartered territories. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: Lili Almog

Almost Human

Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: Mirovuki Ito

World to Come

Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: James Matthew Daniel

Elsewhere

The cellist Maya Beiser has consistently challenged our conception of the traditional cello recital and of traditional cello repertoire through her multi-media performances featuring works commissioned especially for her.  Her newest project, Elsewhere, continues the trajectory into unchartered territories. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: Lili Almog

Almost Human

Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration. ...more

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Maya Beiser
Photo: Mirovuki Ito

World to Come

Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award. ...more

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El Cimarrón

Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger
In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104. ...more

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Luca Lombardi

Storia di Giona

Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh. ...more

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Robert Koller, El Cimarrón
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85. birthday of Hans Werner Henze
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Robert Koller