September 29 & 30
Munich Philharmonic
Javier Perianes, pianist
LIGETI: “Concert Românesc” for Orchestra
BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No. 3
BARTÓK: “Concerto for Orchestra” Sz 116
October 7
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianist
RAVEL: Concerto for Piano in G Major
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird
October 8 & 9
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianist
RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso
RAVEL: Concerto for Piano in G Major
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird
05 Sep 2016
The 2015 production of Verdi's La traviata from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, with musical direction from Pablo Heras-Casado and a new staging by Rolando Villazón, is now available for Amazon pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD formats. The recording, which receives its worldwide release on October 28, highlights the talents of a starry international cast including Olga Peretyako as Violetta...
27 Aug 2016
Pablo Heras-Casado launches the 2016/17 season with a series of performances throughout Northern Europe. On September 16 & 17 he makes his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, in concert at Stockholm's Berwaldhallen. Cellist Alban Gerhardt is the featured soloist on Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op.125, part of a...
02 Sep 2016
Conductors have these pieces, totems you might call them, which guide them at momentous times. For Pablo Heras-Casado, as it was for Dimitri Mitropoulos, that totem is Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony. He could hardly have planned to make his debut in January with the Vienna Philharmonic in the piece, in place of the recently retired Nikolaus Harnoncourt. And many of his other important debuts – in London, Salzburg, Munich and Berlin among others – have come with a work that he singles out as the most original and satisfying answer to the problem of the symphony addressed in the difficult generation of the 1830s and ’40s, when so many composers were at once inspired and overawed by Beethoven’s example. ‘This piece has everything,’ he says.
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Pablo Heras-Casado & Freiburger Barockorchester
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 “Scottish”: II. Vivace non troppo
Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: II. Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso
Alexander Melnikov, Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado
Quam pulchra es
Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor & Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble
Symphonie No. 2, Op. 52 – “Lobgesang”: Sinfonia, I. Maestoso con moto
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado is the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Principal Guest Conductor of Teatro Real, Madrid and records for Deutsche Grammophon & harmonia mundi, as well as a Global Ambassador of Ayuda en Acción.
Photos: Fernando Sancho
