Ľubica Orgonášová is a Slovak soprano who owns the world stages. The concert at the BHS will celebrate her return after 30 years and the audience will discover that her interpretation of Mozart is without competition. She will perform with
Camerata Salzburg.
A different flavour in Bratislava will be the return appearance of conductor
Valery Gergiev with the
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. This magician has been marked as the most exciting talent on the stage in recent years and the richness in colour of his orchestra has no match. Some can recall that as a young man at the beginning of his starry career, he stood on the Reduta stage in 1980.
BHS is also a parade of world renowned orchestras: The
Czech Philharmonic, The Hague Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra or the Krakow Philharmonic – with conductors
Ken Ichiro Kobayashi, Neeme Järvi, Iván Fischer or Pawel Przytocki. Of course, it is an opportunity to welcome orchestras with an exotic flavour:
The Armenian Philharmonic recently had great success at the BHS; let’s believe that this will be repeated. The World Expo in Shanghai inspired festival organisers to introduce the culture of this city here – for the first time, the
Chinese Shanghai Philharmonic will visit the BHS with conductor
Mahai Tang, whose artistic career started with Herbert von Karajan himself and with pianist Mélodie Zhao, who won Hummel’s Piano Competition in Bratislava.
Once again, excellent soloists will perform at the BHS: pianists
Piotr Paleczny, Pavel Gililov, Henri Sigfridsson, Jenö Jandó, Emmanuel Ax, Mikuláš Škuta and Peter Pažický; violinists
Václav Hudeček from the Czech Republic and Slovak
Dalibor Karvay; cellists Frenchman
Gautier Capuçon as well as the famed Italian,
Giovanni Sollima. An evening of stars is promised by the Bratislava and world famous duo:
Vadim Repin – violin,
Boris Berezovskij – piano.
It must be mentioned that the BHS is acknowledging the Belgian EU presidency and has therefore invited Flemish ensemble, Anima Eterna, with the ever fresh Monteverdi’s madrigals. Since Slovakia has presidency of the Vysehrad Four, a concert is being prepared in which pieces from composers from all four countries will be heard, interpreted by artists from the V4 countries.
Apart from foreign artists, the
Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, ŠKO Žilina and the
Bohdan Warchal Chamber Orchestra, celebrating 50 years of existence, as well as other artists, will perform at the BHS.
Audiences will certainly enjoy listening to pieces from big names whose anniversaries we are commemorating: 200 years since the birth of the darling of the Warsaw and Paris salons and the genius of romanticism, Fryderyk Chopin, as well as Robert Schumann, who worshiped the joining of music and poetry. Audiences will also be able to appreciate a master whose works are full of dazzling effects together with great pain - the excellent Gustav Mahler, who was born 150 years ago.
Once again this year, part of the Bratislava Festival will be the international stage of young interpreters,
New Talent – SPP Foundation Award – this is a platform for discovering talent and presenting new artists, future great personalities in the music world.
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