2019 Rheingau Musik Festival
Meets MagentaMusik 360
Directors: Hans Hadulla & Alexander Radulescu
3 Live-Streams for: MagentaMusik 360
Live-Streaming dates: Aug. 15-17, 2019
Length: 136 min. / 72 min. / 115 min.
© 2019, a BFMI production for Live Nation Brand Partnership & Media in collaboration with Rheingau Musik Festival
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With up to 123,000 visitors, the Rheingau Musik Festival is one of the largest classical music events in Europe. Three very special concerts were selected in 2019:

CONCERT 1
August 15th, 2019
Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 86 D major Hob I:86
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Janine Jansen, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

The outstanding chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle made his debut at the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2019. Long awaited, he brought with him the orchestra with which he set out for new musical shores in autumn 2017: the London Symphony Orchestra. Janine Jansen is one of the finest young classical violinists in the world today. Her performance of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, is thrilling!
CONCERT 2
August 16th, 2019
Kloster Eberbach, Eltville am Rhein, Basilika

Carl Orff
Carmina Burana

Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano
Martin Petzold, tenor
Dominik Köninger, baritone
Limburger Domsingknaben
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno
Philharmonie der Nationen
Justus Frantz, conductor

Justus Frantz is a veteran of the Rheingau Musik Festival: He has been a friend of the founder Michael Herrmann for 50 years and has been there from the very beginning, shaping the event. This year, the 75-year-old serenades with a select group of performers: Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is on the programme, a piece with almost unique expressiveness and musical depth. Justus Frantz gives one of the most famous choral works in music history a new twist and delights the audience. A must list of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
CONCERT 3
August 17th, 2019
Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor (Op. 93)

Jan Lisiecki, piano
Australian Youth Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbanski, conductor

Jan Lisiecki mixes up the genre with his fresh approach and inspires the audience of the Rheingau Musik Festival as the soloist of Sergei Rachmaninov's great 2nd piano concerto - an homage to romanticism, with songlike melodious tones. Also on the programme: Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony. It has been alleged that Stalin's death in March of the same year had provided the main impetus for the symphony, and the second movement, in particular, is a portrait of the deceased tyrant.