FIRST SERIES PROGRAMME
W. Rihm: Brahmsliebewalzer 2
R. Schumann: Concert for cello and orchestra, A minor Op. 129
J. Brahms: Symphony nr. 1, C minor Op. 68

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ON ITS FOURTH VISIT TO OUR COUNTRY THE WONDERFUL DRESDEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PRESENTS ITSELF AGAIN WITH ITS PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR AND ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN YOUNG CELLISTS OF OUR TIMES

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Offering up to 80 concerts a year in the Kulturpalast, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, known as the Elbe’s Florence, is a landmark in the city’s cultural life. Among the conductors and soloists who have worked with this orchestra were Brahms,  Tchaikowsky, Dvorák and Strauss, Hans von Bülow, Anton Rubinstein, Bruno Walter, Fritz Busch, Arthur Nikisch, Hermann Scherchen, Erich Kleiber, Willem Mengelberg.

Kurt Masur is at present its Honorary Conductor. On tour they have visited all Europe, China, Japan, Israel, Southamerica and the United States. After 1945 it was conducted by Otto Klemperer, Karel Ancerl, Vaclav Neumann, Seiji Ozawa, Klaus Tennstedt; also Günther Herbig, Juri Temirkanov, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yehudi Menuhin, Jeffrey Tate, Michlyoshi Inoue, Marek Janowski, Eliahu Inbal, Walter Weller, Luciano Berio, and others. The orchestra includes four choral ensembles: a philharmonic mixed choir, a youth choir, a philharmonic youth choir and a chamber one. In 1967 Kurt Masur annexed them to the main orchestra and since then they appear together offering choral works and operas in concert included in its seasons.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor of German origin, graduated summa cum laude in the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, winning the Richard Strauss prize. As conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao (1958-62) and the Orquesta Nacional de España (1962-78), as early as 1959 he succeeded Ataúlfo Argenta as principal conductor of this last organism. Since 1975 he is a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and from 1991 to 1996, principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony and general conductor of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (1992-97). He also conducted the Berlin Radio Symphony (1994-2000) and was named conductor for life of the RAI National Symphony orchestra in Turin (2001). As from the Season 2004/5 he conducts de Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. Outstanding are his recordings of Mendelssohn’s Elias oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bizet’s opera, Carmen, and the orchestral Works of Manuel de Falla.

Johannes Moser, a young German cellist, became renowned in the international musical scene after winning the 12th. Tchaikowsky Competition (2002). A student of David Geringas in Paris, he also won 1st. Prize in the Davidoff competition (Riga, 2000), the Mendelssohn in Berlin (2001) and in 2003 the  “Bayerische Kunstförderpreis”. He played for the first time with the Concertgebouw orchestra, Amsterdam, conducted by Mariss Jansons, during the Season 2009/10; he also reappears at the Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Festival, tours North America with the Salzburg Mozarteum orchestra, plays for the first time in Sydney and later with the WDR orchestra in Cologne, with the Brimingham Symphony and will offer Lutoslawski’s cello concert together with the Bavarian Radio orchestra conducted by Welser-Möst. He collaborates with many well-known conductors: Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Neeme Jarvi, Paavo Jarvi and others.