Vladimir Jurowski closes the Ravello Festival with a sold-out crowd. The Russian conductor will lead the Berlin orchestra for the final evening.
After ten symphony concerts, two jazz concerts, six chamber music concerts and a piano recital, the seventieth edition of the Ravello Festival, organized by the Ravello Foundation and directed by Alessio Vlad, is drawing to a close.
Closing out the two months of programming at the Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, which has been sold out, will be the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, on Saturday 3 September (at 19.30:XNUMX pm).
On the stage of the City of Music, a group will take to the stage that has long since conquered a leading position among German radio orchestras, establishing itself, moreover, as one of the best orchestras in Berlin. Founded in 1923, it has lived through all the events of the history of the German capital, arriving to the present day with a legacy of prestigious collaborations and important recordings. Since 2017, the director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra has been none other than Vladimir Jurowski, acclaimed throughout the world for his powerful musicality and his diversified artistic commitment.
The Russian maestro, who has chosen Germany as his second home since 1995, is currently also principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera, and has chosen for the closing concert of the 70th edition of the Festival a programme that includes in the first part Mozart's Don Giovanni Overture and Bartok's Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra, BB 48a, SZ 36 with soloist Vilde Frang, who has been at the forefront of the most sought-after stages in the world for a decade.
Since 2012, when she won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival, Vilde Frang has performed with the most important orchestras and conductors. In the second part of the concert, Schubert’s Ninth Symphony “The Great”, which will close this successful edition of the Festival.
Article published on 31 August 2022 - 16:17
