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 Photo:
N. Gulakov
Katia Skanavi has
been re-invited by Kurt Masur and the Orchestre
National de France for a performance of Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto No 1 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
on 26 June. In May, Katia is on tour with
Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists for performances of Shostakovich’s
Piano Concerto No 1 and Bach’s D Minor Concerto in Bregenz,
Almere and Apeldoorn.
 Photo:
Sasha Gusov / Kronberg Academy
With concerts on 1 and 5 June in Logroño
and Barcelona, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
makes her debut with the Wiener
Symphoniker and Fabio Luisi, performing Dvorák’s
Cello Concerto.
 Photo:
Guy Vivien
After earning widespread plaudits for his complete
cycle of Beethoven Sonatas in Monte Carlo, François-Frédéric
Guy’s Beethoven Project continues with a CD release on
Naïve, featuring Piano Concertos 1 and 5 with Philippe Jordan
and the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France. In June he performs Mahler’s
Das Lied von der Erde at the Musée
d'Orsay before joining the Yomiuri
Nippon Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Lazarev for performances
of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
in Tokyo.
 Photo:
Marco Borggreve
Viviane Hagner’s
position as Artist in Residence at the Konzerthaus
Berlin culminates with three concerts on 19, 20 and 21 June,
featuring the world premiere of Aureliano Cattaneo’s Violin
Concerto – a work specially commissioned for this occasion.
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