No podiums required: Camerata Salzburg and Hélène Grimaud in Berlin

By Elena Luporini, 21 May 2025

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“scowling at times, dancing at others, Grimaud’s playing was rich in internal polyphony”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 19 May 2025

Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550

Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, Op.15

Camerata Salzburg

Hélène Grimaud, Piano

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

Some like it hot: Heinrich Schiff and the Camerata Salzburg cook up a concert in a sweltering Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 18th June

You know that it is really warm in the hall when a special announcement before the concert is made apologizing to all the ladies in the house that the men in the orchestra will be playing without their suit jackets due to the heat. We in the audience, fanning ourselves incessantly, were only too happy to be forgiving, as the orchestra must have been fairly melting under the lights.

***11

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Elena Luporini

After completing their Master's degree in Musicology in Rome, Elena has now moved to Berlin to dedicate themselves to more things musical. With a publication on Béla Bartók and a seminar at the Humboldt-Universität underway, their interests mostly veer toward 20th-century opera, with some forays into queer musicology. Some of their latest undertakings also include oboe lessons, stencil-making and tea-making.