Heras-Casado launches Klosters Music in style

Pablo Heras-Casado and the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Francesco Piemontesi, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Guests arrive at the Klosters Arena

By Mark Pullinger, 30 July 2022

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“the Saltarello was fast and frenetic, Heras-Casado a boisterous Tigger on the podium”

Reviewed at Arena Klosters, Klosters on 30 July 2022

Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture

Schumann, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54

Schubert, Impromptu no. 3 in G flat major, D.899

Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4 in A major "Italian", Op.90

Francesco Piemontesi, Piano

Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor

Munich Chamber Orchestra

Gods and Heroes: Beethoven stirs the soul at Klosters

Roy Westbrook, 27th July

A traditional overture–concerto–symphony programme at Klosters Music proves anything but stale in dramatic performances by the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

*****

Classics at Klosters from Onofri and the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Roy Westbrook, 26th July

Opening Klosters Music, Enrico Onofri proves that Classical-era music can still work well seen from a later perspective.

****1

German efficiency, Hungarian goulash, Turkish delight

Peter Quantrill, 2nd June

A cello concerto by CPE Bach headlines Nicolas Altstaedt's appearance at the Istanbul Music Festival with the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

****1

Heiner Goebbels and the Munich Chamber Orchestra: Theatre through music

Max Woods, 23rd May

Every year the Munich Chamber Orchestra (MKO) give a living composer the opportunity to select an entire programme of their works and works by other composers that were important to them.

*****

Old meets new with the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Max Woods, 8th May

John Cage's unusual approach to composition is somewhat infamous. Thanks to his piano work 4'33" he's been firmly placed on the musical map as something of an oddball, and while that particular work may take his eccentric style to the extreme, the methods underlying his other works are equally intriguing.

****1

Lebhaft, leidenschaftlich, lustvoll: Koskys Agrippina in München

Michael Vieth, 10th May

Zwei Primadonnen und drei Countertenöre brachten superben barocken Operngesang von Weltrang ins Münchner Prinzregententheater.

*****

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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