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Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kids@Casals
„… DER ÄUGLEIN KINDLICHER HIMMEL“
Children's concert for children up to 2 years
Tickets
20 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Kids@Casals
„… DER ÄUGLEIN KINDLICHER HIMMEL“
Children's concert for children aged 5 and over
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Mittwochskonzerte
Nicholas Swensen – Concert
The young soloists from the Kronberg Academy perform on many stages worldwide - and every Wednesday in the Casals Forum: Week after week, one of them presents themselves in the Carl Bechstein Hall with a self-designed one-hour concert - and invites other young colleagues to join as fellow musicians.

Participants

  • Nicholas Swensen viola

Programme

The program and concert flyer will be designed individually by the students.
 

MittwochsKonzerte as a package.
Here you can book five concerts for the price of four.

Tickets
24 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Mittwochskonzerte
Guido Sant´Anna – Concert
The young soloists from the Kronberg Academy perform on many stages worldwide - and every Wednesday in the Casals Forum: Week after week, one of them presents themselves in the Carl Bechstein Hall with a self-designed one-hour concert - and invites other young colleagues to join as fellow musicians.

Participants

  • Guido Sant’Anna violin

Programme

The program and concert flyer will be designed individually by the students.
 

MittwochsKonzerte as a package.
Here you can book five concerts for the price of four.

Tickets
24 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
A guest at the Casals Forum
Rhein und mehr: Dunkelheit und Licht
Ros, Rothermel, Sinfonieorchester des Philharmonischen Vereins 1834
Tickets
24 / 30 / 36 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
BRAD MEHLDAU (PIANO)
Brad Mehldau

Participants

  • Brad Mehldau piano

Programme

Works from his latest CD releases ‘Après Fauré’ and ‘After Bach II’
 

Après Fauré

To mark the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré's death, Brad Mehldau dedicates an album to the French composer that is both a tribute and a personal confession. Fauré's finely nuanced ideal of sound had a lasting influence on Mehldau's playing and composition, and this work reflects the deep connection.

On ‘Après Fauré’, Fauré's elegant, dreamy nocturnes alternate with Mehldau's own compositions, which reflect Fauré's musical characteristics and emotional depth. The result is an intense, poetic dialogue that makes the influence of Fauré in Mehldau's music impressively audible.

After Bach II

In his second album dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach, Brad Mehldau once again embarks on a profound musical journey. ‘The more you try to engage with Bach, the more your own personality becomes visible, inevitably. You don't play Bach - Bach plays you, in the sense that he exposes you,’ writes Mehldau in his liner notes.

With this attitude, Mehldau creates a fascinating dialogue between his own Bach-inspired compositions and selected pieces from the ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ and the partitas. The highlight is a bold new interpretation: in the second half of the album, Mehldau presents his variations on the Goldberg Variations, demonstrating a reverent and creative approach to one of the central works of music history.

Subject to change.

Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Mittwochskonzerte
Noga Shaham – Concert
The young soloists from the Kronberg Academy perform on many stages worldwide - and every Wednesday in the Casals Forum: Week after week, one of them presents themselves in the Carl Bechstein Hall with a self-designed one-hour concert - and invites other young colleagues to join as fellow musicians.

Participants

  • Noga Shaham viola

Programme

The program and concert flyer will be designed individually by the students.
 

MittwochsKonzerte as a package.
Here you can book five concerts for the price of four.

Tickets
24 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Sir András Schiff – Künstler und Mensch
TRIO SCHIFF | TAMESTIT | WIDMANN
Schiff, Tamestit, Widmann

Participants

  • Sir András Schiff piano
  • Antoine Tamestit viola
  • Jörg widmann clarinet

Programme

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Fairy tales op. 132
Fairytale Pictures op. 113
Fantasy pieces op. 73
Ghost Variations

Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Four pieces op. 5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Trio in E flat major for piano, clarinet and viola KV 498 ‘Kegelstatt’

Subject to change.

Tickets
40 / 50 / 60 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele
TABEA ZIMMERMANN & FRIENDS I
Zimmermann, Kanneh-Mason, Hoppe, Students of Kronberg Academy

Participants

  • Tabea Zimmermann viola
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
  • Thomas Hoppe piano

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048

Thomas Demenga (*1954)
‘Duo? o, Du...’ for viola and violoncello

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Trio in A minor for piano, clarinet (viola) and violoncello op. 114

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 ‘Pastorale’
(Arr. G. Fischer for string sextet, ca. 1810)

 

An artist talk with Tabea Zimmermann and Prof. Dr Friedemann Eichhorn will take place at 6.45 pm.

Subject to change.

Tickets
35 / 45 / 55 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele
TABEA ZIMMERMANN & FRIENDS II
Zimmermann, Walker, Clément

Participants

  • Tabea Zimmermann viola
  • Adam Walker flute
  • Agnès Clément harp

Programme

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
‘Syrinx’ for flute solo L 129
Sonata in F major for flute, viola and harp L 145

Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
Elegiac Trio, GP 178

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Lachrymae op. 48

Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931)
‘Garden of Joys and Sorrows’ for flute, viola, harp and narrator (ad lib.)

Subject to change.

Tickets
25 / 35 €