(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Tour of summer festivals with Britten and Shostakovich
In the late summer of 2015, for their traditional guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival and at Lucerne, Bucharest and Grafenegg, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle performed Shostakovich’s devastating Fourth Symphony.(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Jonathan Kelly, Andreas Wittmann, Sarah Willis, Fergus McWilliam, Martin Heinze, Markus Weidmann, Mor Biron, Walter Seyfarth, Alexander Bader
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
The bassoon section: Mor Biron, Markus Weidmann, Stefan Schweigert, HyunSung Jang
Rudolf Buchbinder greets the orchestra before the rehearsal
from left to right: Rachel Schmidt, Raimar Orlowsky, Matthew Hunter, Julia Gartemann, Christoph Igelbrink
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Mihai Constantinescu and Martin Hoffmann
(Photo: Manu Theobald)
Raphael Haeger
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)
Laurentiu Dinca, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Sir Simon
(Photo: Stephan Rabold)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Priska Ketterer)
Amihai Grosz preparing for the performance
Some more Lucerne impressions by Markus Weidmann
After a sparrow breakfast our (Photo: photographing bassoonist Markus Weidmann took a stroll onto the Pilatus on his free day.)
Pictures by Peter Fischli from our first concert in Lucerne.
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
Peter Brem
(Photo: Marco Borggreve)
(Photo: Aleksi Hornborg)
(Photo: ACT/Jörg Steinmetz)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
Stefan Schweigert, solo bassoon, gets a very well deserved extra applause after Shostakovich 4th.
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)