Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt

CONCERt sERIEsclassic.EstERHáZYaNNuaL PROgRaMME

2015

The unheard and the unseen can emerge in places where opposites collide. An historical, cultural site on the one hand, a five-year-old concert series aspiring to be current and contemporary on the other. The concert series classic.Esterházy is embarking upon exciting paths in partnership with other event organizers. They are paths with vision and goals: quality and character every weekend between April and November. World stars such as Isabelle Faust, Marlis Petersen, François Leleux and the Cuarteto Casals will be making guest appearances. Orchestras like Camerata Salzburg, Concerto Köln and the Munich Chamber Orchestra promise marvellous musical experiences.The programme focuses on the works of the former Hofkapellmeister Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel and will be performed in part on historical instruments from that period. The string quartet, so central to classic.Esterházy, will be given even greater prominence. Each season, excellent musicians are invited to form the quartet-in-residence at Esterházy Palace. In 2015/16 this is the award-winning Schumann Quartet, who in 2016 will be premiering a specially commissioned piece. With its many rooms and corridors and its large park, the palace is a magical setting for a strolling concert with a wine tasting as well as the summer picnic concerts. New ventures, such as a master class with acclaimed soprano Marlis Petersen, and a Pannonian Youth Orchestra, supported by the Esterházy Foundation, widen the musical spectrum and highlight Esterházy Palace as a centre of vibrant, contemporary culture. Andreas RichterArtistic Director classic.Esterházy

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Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major, Hob. XV:32Wolfgang a. Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in D major, K. 306Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, K. 3056 Variations for Violin and Piano in G major, K. 374 bLudwig v. Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 12 No. 3

“Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism”, raved the New York Times about the outstanding violinist Isabelle Faust. For years now, “Germany’s smartest violinist” (Der Tagesspie-gel) and pianist Alexander Melnikov have formed a fabulous duo. The Russian pianist’s “subtlest touch, absolute technical command” and “perfect intellectual permeation” (kulturradio rbb) have also garnered much praise. Together they are the perfect combination for music that is simultaneously spontaneous and carefully thought-out. In this programme the two musicians demonstrate their passion for intricate, virtuoso dialogues, bold clashes as well as harmonious cantilenas that Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven seem to have composed especially for these performers.

Exceptional works will also be played on exceptional instruments: Isabelle Faust will be playing the “Sleeping Beauty” Stradivari of 1704, Alexander Melnikov the Müller fortepiano from the Esterházy Foundation collection (1803/04).

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Saturday, 18 April 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal(Season opening)

VIOLIN sONatas BY HaYDN, MOZaRt aND BEEtHOVENIsabelle Faust, violinAlexander Melnikov, piano

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Ignaz Pleyel: Overture to “Iphigénie en Aulide”Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor “La Passione” Hob. I:49sándor Veress:Passacaglia Concertante for Oboe and String OrchestraJohann Nepomuk Hummel:Theme and Variations for Oboe and Orchestra, Op. 102Wolfgang a. Mozart:Symphony in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”

His playing was “the prototype of the highest purity and clarity, the most graceful elegance and delicacy, with all difficulties calculated to arouse the greatest amazement...” This was how Carl Czerny described Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s pianist brilliance. And Mozart praised his colleague Ignaz Pleyel, twenty-one years older than Hummel, with the following words: “It will be a lucky day for music if, when the time comes, Pleyel should replace Haydn!” Yet both Pleyel and Hummel are rarely encountered in concert programmes today. Reason enough for the Munich Chamber Orchestra and world-renowned oboist François Leleux to combine outstanding works by these two composers with Haydn’s dramatic symphony “La Passione” and Mozart’s brilliant “Jupiter Symphony”. A fest of virtuoso classical music with Hungarian composer Sándor Veress adding a thrilling modern touch in his Passacaglia Concertante.

The new CD by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and François Leleux will be presented at this concert evening.

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Saturday, 25 April 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal

MOZaRt, HuMMEL aND HaYDN IN CONCERtO aND sYMPHONYFrançois Leleux, oboeMunich Chamber Orchestra

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Carl Maria v. Weber: Overture to “Der Freischütz” (The Marksman)Richard strauss: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat majorLudwig v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major “Pastoral”, Op. 68Johann strauss: Stories from the Vienna Woods

The “awakening of cheerful feelings upon arrival in the country”, as conjured up in the “Pastoral’s” first movement, is a perfect sentiment for the musical and culinary delights provided by the popular picnic concerts. The idyll by the banks of a stream, rustic dancing, and – after a brief, dramatic storm – the gratitude of refreshed nature are wondrously rendered in Beethoven’s music. The programme also includes Johann Strauss Jr’s hymn to the landscape of home in his “Stories from the Vienna Woods”, with their hint of melancholy and noble sounds, as well as the threatening, mysterious murmurs and wild storms in the Bohemian Forest in Carl Maria von Weber’s “Freischütz” that still have a compelling immediacy. The French horn, that quintessential Romantic instrument, is everywhere to be heard on this evening, and is invited to take centre stage as the virtuoso star in the second concerto by Richard Strauss.

Prices in €Category V 25.00 | IV 35.00 | III 43.00 | II 51.00 | I 59.00

Saturday, 11 July 2015,7.30 pm, HaydnsaalSunday, 12 July 2015,11 am, Haydnsaal

PICNIC CONCERt – MusIC FROM WOODs aND MEaDOWsPremysl Vojta, French hornJochem Hochstenbach, conductorCamerata Salzburg

Picnic concert

JuLY• Wild game ham on Waldorf salad• Smoked char with egg and

vegetables• Pöttsching cherries

with chocolate cake

JuLY (vegetarian)• Vegetable tiramisu on Waldorf salad• Smoked tofu with egg and

vegetables• Pöttsching cherries

with chocolate cake

JuLY• Marinated beef with mushroom

tartare and summer salad• Salmon trout lasagne and celeriac• Veal cheek with courgette, nuts and

Schupfnudeln [thick rolled noodles]• Vanilla parfait with

Pöttsching cherries

JuLY (vegetarian)• Mushroom tartare with marinated

root vegetables and summer salad• Courgette risotto with young

spinach and nuts• Smoked tofu with wild herbs • Vanilla parfait with

Pöttsching cherries

august• Mangalica in aspic with

summer salad• Trout roll on fennel• Berry cake on vanilla sauce

august (vegetarian)• Marinated Lake Neusiedl vegetables

and goat cheese balls• Rolled pancake filled with algae and

summer vegetables• Berry cake on vanilla sauce

august• Red pepper tartlet on summer salad

with mangalica pork• Poached zander & fennel• Pink beef in red wine sauce with

vegetable pasta• Berries with nougat and

vanilla sauce

august (vegetarian)• Red pepper tartlet with chard-

yoghurt terrine and vegetable vinaigrette

• Gratinated pancakes with algae• Fried gnocchi on Lake Neusiedl

vegetables• Berries with nougat and

vanilla sauce

PICNIC BasKEts (FOR 2 PEOPLE) € 40

DELuXE PICNIC (FOR 2 PEOPLE) € 80

all picnics come with wine, bread and mineral water.

You are not permitted to bring your own food to the picnic concerts. thank you for your understanding!

all picnics come with fresh fruit, wine, bread and mineral water.

PICNICs 2015

One of the Esterházy Foundation’s initiatives has been to establish a youth orchestra in Burgenland. The aim is to bring together young mu-sicians from Austria and its neighbouring countries of Slovakia, Hun-gary and Germany. Music, a language that transcends borders, is an ideal medium in which to explore cultural identity and tradition. The first project week will culminate in a concert in the Haydnsaal in which the orchestra will perform their repertoire from the week.

Prices in €Category II 15.00 | I 20.00(Children and young people up to age 18 and pupils and students up to age 27 [with student ID] pay half price)

Friday, 31 July 20157.30 pm, Haydnsaal

PaNNONIaN YOutH sYMPHONY ORCHEstRaJochem Hochstenbach, conductor

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Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes”Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26Robert schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 “Rhenish”

The endless fascination of water has always pervaded music. Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony celebrates the “sacred river” and the inhabitants living on the Rhine’s banks in festive, rustic and also mysterious, solemn melodies. Felix Mendelssohn based his rendering of an alarmingly calm sea, finally relieved when the wind blows into the sails, on a poem by Goethe. By contrast, in Britten’s “Peter Grimes” the sea is a mirror of the human soul with moving, expressive sounds that veer between lashing squalls and resigned calm. Max Bruch was bowled over by the torrent of young violinists who played him his first violin concerto time and again – as if he had never composed anything else! Yet these have been swept away by the current of music history. The Concerto in G minor has withstood the passage of time: a beautiful island in the midst of musical waves at this picnic concert.

In their performance of this popular violin concerto, violinist Sara Domjanić and the Pressburg Symphony, conducted by Jochem Hochs-tenbach, are also sure to be on the same wavelength.

Prices in €Category V 25.00 | IV 35.00

III 43.00 | II 51.00 | I 59.00

A magnificent atmosphere to appreciate music: Esterházy Palace with its park and world famous Haydnsaal.

Picnic concert

Saturday, 15 August 2015,7.30 pm, HaydnsaalSunday, 16 August 2015,11 am, Haydnsaal

PICNIC CONCERt – sOuNDs OF sEas aND RIVERsSara Domjanic, violinJochem Hochstenbach, conductorPressburg Symphony

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Lieder and arias by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

Coloratura soprano Marlis Petersen not only bedazzles in styles ran-ging from Baroque to modernism, but is also exceptionally gifted at portraying her characters. These have been as diverse as the furious Electra in Mozart’s “Idomeneo”, the fragile Violetta in Verdi’s “La Travi-ata”, who perishes for love, Alban Berg’s seductress “Lulu”, and Aribert Reimann’s “Medea”, so deeply hurt that she is driven to murder.

Her passion for historical styles of performance not only helps infuse her characters with enthralling credibility, down to the last detail, but also to pour powerful emotions into a finely crafted form. This tremen-dously versatile German singer will perform powerful music on this evening of arias, including works by Mozart and Haydn. In collabo-ration with the Joseph Haydn Conservatoire in Eisenstadt, she is also holding a master class to give young talents the opportunity to benefit from her expertise.

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Friday, 28 August 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal

LIEDER aND aRIas BY HaYDN, MOZaRt aND BEEtHOVENMarlis Petersen, sopranoCamillo Radicke, pianoFlorian Mayer, violin

Johannes Matthias sperger: Symphony in C major, Meier A2Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Wf 1/3lJoseph Haydn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major, Hob. VIIa:4Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in C major, Hob. VII1:1Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony in E minor for Strings and Basso continuo Wolfgang a. Mozart: Divertimento in F major for Strings, No. 3, K. 138

Joseph Haydn once confessed to his biographer Griesinger: “... whoever knows me thoroughly must realize that I owe a great deal to Emanuel Bach, and that I understood him and studied him diligently.” Mozart was also convinced: “He is the father, we are the boys. Those of us who know anything at all learned it from him.” This exciting evening traces the importance Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and other composers held for the Classical style. The performers are a further attraction – the brilliant Concerto Köln and virtuoso violinist Midori Seiler, who will be interpreting two of Haydn’s (unjustly) rarely played violin concertos. Symphonies by Johannes Matthias Sperger from Lower Austria, who was also a travelling contrabassist, and the frequently overlooked Bach son Johann Christoph Friedrich, who composed in the somewhat provincial Bückeburg, cast new light on works by Mozart and Haydn.

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Saturday, 3 October 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal

HaYDN’s VIOLIN CONCERtOs aND ORCHEstRaL MusIC BY tHE BaCH sONsMidori Seiler, violinConcerto Köln

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Wolfgang a. Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola in G major, K. 423gideon Klein: Duo for Violin and Violoncello (unfinished)Ludwig v. Beethoven: String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No. 4 Robert schumann: Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1

“They are young, fresh and are creating a splash,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung recently wrote. “The three brothers Erik, Ken and Mark Schu-mann have already been awarded prizes as soloists. Together with vi-olist Lisa Randalu they form the Schumann Quartet.” And far from confining itself to the works of its Romantic namesake, this quartet has a wide repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary music and can already boast many successful performances at prestigious festivals. At Esterházy Palace the Schumann Quartet invites its au-dience on a small journey of discovery in two senses. In impressive rooms, compelling works will be played by two duos, a trio, followed by quartets to make up this strolling concert. Enjoy music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, as well as by the talented Gideon Klein, murdered by the Nazis at a subcamp of Auschwitz when he was twenty-five.

The Schumann Quartet is the classic.Esterházy 2015/16 quartet-in-re-sidence. During this residency it will perform a number of concerts, premieres, and special programmes.

Price in €35.00

Saturday, 24 October 2015,7.30 pm, Esterházy Palace

stROLLINg CONCERt IN tHE CHaPEL, EMPIRE HaLL aND HaYDNsaaLSchumann Quartett

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5, Hob. III:35 Wolfgang a. Mozart: String Quartet in C major, No. 19, K. 465‚ ‘‘Dissonance Quartet”Luigi Boccherini: Quintet No. 4 in D major, G. 448 “Fandango” (for guitar and strings)Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127, etc.

“There is a tension in Beethoven’s evolution between adherence to and a rebellious need to dissolve – or at least to reshape – the Classical style.” This was how his biographer Maynard Solomon described the composer and this certainly applies to his late quartet, Op. 127, which thrillingly strays from the key E-flat major. Haydn had already sought out the most remote keys, as his capricious, bold String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20/5, demonstrates. And in his notorious introduction to his “Dissonance Quartet”, Mozart raised this disruption of harmony to a principle, finding echoes in the entire work. In Boccherini’s rousing “Fandango Quintet”, the Cuarteto Casals remains true to its passion for the unusual. The guitar introduces original Andalusian flair, enhanced by adventurous cello soli, and resonates with the stirring Fandango melody to be found in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”.

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Saturday, 7 November 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal

QuaRtEt aND MORECuarteto Casals Luigi Attademo, guitar

NOVEMBER

A gala of music: works from the Pannonian region combine the contemplative with the rousing, the traditional with the unusual. When Ferry Janoska invites stars from classical music, pop and enter-tainment to celebrate Christmas on the Haydnsaal stage, it is sure to be an unforgettable evening.

Prices in €Category V 18.00 | IV 25.00 | III 32.00 | II 39.00 | I 45.00

Thursday, 17 December 2015,7.30 pm, Haydnsaal

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