Schnörkellos und doch expressiv: Sir Roger Norrington in Salzburg

By Michael Vieth, 14 August 2018

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“Kulman... öffnete mit ihrem farbintensiven Timbre die Klangnuancen der Sehnsüchte”

Reviewed at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg: Großer Saal, Salzburg on 13 August 2018

Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder (orch. Henze)

Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4

Camerata Salzburg

Sir Roger Norrington, Conductor

Elisabeth Kulman, Mezzo-soprano

No podiums required: Camerata Salzburg and Hélène Grimaud in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 19th May

Who needs conductors when you've got synergy? The Camerata Salzburg and Hélène Grimaud bring Mozart and Brahms to Berlin's Philharmonie.

****1

Julia Fischer's Beethoven shines at Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Laurence Vittes, 16th July

Intimate and powerful, Fischer's performance with Camerata Salzburg feels like a match made in heaven.

****1

Mozart lives! Camerata Salzburg toasts its hometown hero

Mark Pullinger, 30th January

A charming programme featuring Renaud Capuçon and Gérard Caussé in the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, one of Mozart’s most sublime, sun-drenched works.

****1

Light and shadows up to Mozart's summit

Luce Zurita, 11th March

Nested in the warmth of Cadogan Hall, Camerata Salzburg and Ben Gernon brought life to Mozart's eternal music whose multi-faceted joy carried in its wake the British violinist Nicola Benedetti.

***11

The Salzburg Camerata and Angela Hewitt with Bach concertos for keyboard in Pavia

James Imam, 1st April

Worlds apart from those interpretations where Bach's expressivity is left to speak for itself, tonight's approach provided a complementary carapace that navigated us through Bach's score in unexpected ways.

****1

Hilary Hahn and the Camerata Salzburg shine at the Berlin Konzerthaus

Christie Franke, 1st October

The Camerata Salzburg’s evening of Mozart, Enescu and Vaughan Williams at Berlin’s Konzerthaus was a crisp and bubbling performance that stimulated the intellect as well as the emotions. Beginning the evening with George Enescu’s Two Intermezzi for String Orchestra, the Camerata swept audience members away into a world gone, but too lovely to be forgotten.

****1

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Michael Vieth

Michael Vieth ist Physiker und hat viele Jahre in der Zentralen Forschung der Siemens AG in Erlangen und München an magnetischen Speichern und Sensoren gearbeitet. Auch von klassischer Musik magnetisiert, singt er seit seinem Studium in Göttingen in großen Kantoreien und Chorprojekten; eine besondere Vorliebe hat sich zu Motetten der Renaissance und der Moderne entwickelt. Daneben faszinieren ihn Auftritte und Programme kleiner Vokal-Ensembles.

Schnörkellos und doch expressiv: Sir Roger Norrington bei den Salzburger Festspielen