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CologneThe Musician
Mitchell: The Musician (oder: Wie der Rattenfänger nach Hameln kam)
Rainer Mühlbach; Arne Böge; Oper Köln; Hendrik Scheel; Nicol Hungsberg; Gürzenich Orchestra
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli; Christof Loy; Oper Köln; Johannes Leiacker; Ursula Renzenbrink; Olaf Winter; Gürzenich Orchestra
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ColognePrisma
Haas, Bruckner
Gürzenich Orchestra; François-Xavier Roth; Christoph Sietzen
CologneKraftwerk
Gander, Bruckner
Gürzenich Orchestra; François-Xavier Roth; Rascher Saxophone Quartet
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An excellent Rhenish from the Rhineland
Schumann's Third returns to its spiritual home as François-Xavier Roth conducts the Gürzenich Orchestra in a fine Rhenish.
Punch and passion from Gürzenich Orchester Köln
An exciting, though brief, world premiere and Schubert’s turbulent Fourth Symphony were given impressive readings by the Gürzenich Orchestra under Michael Sanderling, with Raphaela Gromes sensitive and passionate in Schumann.
Raising a glass to greatness: Gürzenich's splendid Stravinsky marathon
The players gathered at the bar for a Scotch as the credits rolled. After three hours and twenty minutes of note-taking, I decided to follow suit.
Musical contrasts from Fabien Gabel and the Gürzenich Orchester Köln
In Cologne, Stravinsky's neoclassicism comes up against the echt-romanticism of Schreker and Korngold, ending in a draw.
Beethoven and beyond: the Gürzenich reinvents the concert programme
François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich Orchestra tear up the traditional concert programme to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.
A very palpable hit: Hamlet in Cologne
Brett Dean's operatic reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet receives its German premiere in a powerful new staging by the work's librettist Matthew Jocelyn.