11 events for the next 18 months
(9 days)
The 81st edition of the Hitzacker Summer Music Days - a classical music festival in a picturesque setting.
Cellist Giovanni Sollima opens the festival in Hitzacker with a wide-ranging programme that pairs his own compositions and Haydn improvisations with folk traditions, and puts the nearly forgotten baryton centre stage.
Four vocal stars and pianist Jan Philip Schulze celebrate Haydn in a programme that ranges from his canzonettas and cantatas to unexpected popular-music detours.
A piano-focused debut marathon in Hitzacker: Igor Levit and Markus Becker play Brahms for four hands, while young pianist Séverine Kim presents works by Haydn, Scarlatti and Debussy.
Three prize-winning young pianists - Roman Borisov, Robert Neumann and Dongping Wang - share a lunchtime recital of Haydn, Beethoven, Reger and Ravel.
Three pianists perform works by Ravel, Schumann, and Haydn in an intimate chamber concert. Markus Becker, Séverine Kim, and Robert Neumann present a repertoire spanning from neoclassicism to Romanticism.
Four string quartets perform works from Haydn and Berg to contemporary compositions at St. John's Church in Hitzacker.
Two emerging string quartets - Nerida Quartett and Quartet Integra - make their debuts with works by Haydn and Miyoshi at St. Johannis Church in Hitzacker.
Two young string quartets - Quartet Integra and Quartet Opus13 - perform works by Haydn and Grieg at St. Johannis Church in Hitzacker.
Three young string quartets share the stage in Hitzacker, performing works by Gabriella Smith, Stravinsky, and Haydn - from the contemporary to the classical.
The Arete Quartett and Nerida Quartett perform works by Haydn, Schumann, and the young American composer Alistair Coleman in the fourth quartet concert of the day.