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The opening concert of the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival showcases star soloists.

The idyllic Hasselburg manor hosts an outstanding line-up of soloists joining the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for the opening concert of the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Festival.

This week celebrating summer festivals around Europe starts with a flourish: the opening concert of the 2020 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival which was recorded with no audience in early July. Every year since 2014, the Festival has invited an outstanding musician to spend the summer away from the bustle of daily life, performing up to 20 concerts and workshops with complete artistic freedom. This summer several portrait artists from the past few years came together to launch the "Summer of Opportunities" with this triumphant opening concert. Sol Gabetta, Martin Grubinger, Avi Avital, Sabine Meyer and Xavier de Maistre join the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and conductor Alan Gilbert for concertante pieces by, among others, Bach, Boieldieu and Ishii Maki. 
Later in the afternoon, the first of two archive performances this week from the wonderful Martha Argerich Project in Lugano, Switzerland: the Argentine-Swiss pianist performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. 

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 
Avi Avital, mandolin 

Ishii Maki: Thirteen Drums
Martin Grubinger, percussion

Adrien Boieldieu, arr. Arthur Lilienthal: Harp Concerto in C
Xavier de Maistre, harp

Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, op. 69
Sol Gabetta, cello
Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano

Mendelssohn, arr. Rainer Schottstädt: Konzertstück No. 1 in F minor, op. 113
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Reiner Wehle, bassoon	

Grieg: Holberg Suite
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor

c.4pm
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Martha Argerich, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

This week's programmes end with Maria João Pires playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 at the Martha Argerich Project, and between now and then Afternoon Concert celebrates vocal and choral music with orchestra from summer festivals across Europe in 2019.  You can hear Schoenberg's epic Gurrelieder from the Helsinki Festival on Friday; a colourful nineteenth-century Polish opera by Stanislaw Moniuszko from the Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival in Warsaw (Thursday Opera Matinee); Handel's oratorio Susanna from the Handel Festival in his birthplace Halle near Leipzig (Wednesday and Thursday); and tomorrow Thomas Hampson singing Mahler's 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn' at the Turku Music Festival in Finland and settings of the Stabat Mater spanning 250 years from the Utrecht Early Music Festival in the Netherlands.

Photo: Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Axel Nikolaus

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