(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Good Bye Grafenegg!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)Good Bye Grafenegg!
Jonathan Kelly, Andreas Wittmann, Sarah Willis, Fergus McWilliam, Martin Heinze, Markus Weidmann, Mor Biron, Walter Seyfarth, Alexander Bader
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Janusz Widzyk, double bass and (Photo: photographer)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Naoko Shimizu, Ignacy Miecznikowski and Janusz Widzyk
Daishin Kashimoto, Michael Hasel and Sir Simon
Amihai Grosz, Stefan Dohr and Daishin Kashimoto on their way back inside
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Emily Hoile and Marie-Pierre Langlamet
The bassoon section: Mor Biron, Markus Weidmann, Stefan Schweigert, HyunSung Jang
Guillaume Jehl
Rachel Schmidt
Robert Zimmermann (BerlinPhilMedia), Fürst Metternich, Rudolf Buchbinder
Stefan Dohr
Andreas Buschatz
Knut Weber and Andrej Zust
Rudolf Buchbinder greets the orchestra before the rehearsal
Knut Weber
Michael Hasel and Egor Egorkin
Laurentiu Dinca, Andreas Buschatz, Sir Simon, Noah Bendix-Balgley
from left to right: Rachel Schmidt, Raimar Orlowsky, Matthew Hunter, Julia Gartemann, Christoph Igelbrink
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Altmanni-Kantate
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Janusz Widzyk)
Of course Mor Biron also gets his personal birthday cake by Roberto Steiner!
Mor Biron
Bukarest backstage by Monika Rittershaus
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus)
Mihai Constantinescu and Martin Hoffmann
Michael Karg
Raphael Haeger
Stephan Koncz
Esko Laine
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)
Neithard Resa
Guillaume Jehl, Florian Pichler, Martin Kretzer warming up backstage
Markus Weidmann, warming up his contra-bassoon
Laurentiu Dinca, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Sir Simon
Birthday boy Christoph Igelbrink
Noah Bendix-Balgley and Andreas Buschatz
Ulrich Wolff and Gunars Upatnieks
Sir Simon Rattle, Stanley Dodds
Laurentiu Dinca
Martin Hoffmann
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus and Markus Weidmann)
Stefan Dohr
Stefan got a birthday tune played by his French horn group
Our dear Roberto baked a cake for this occassion! Yummy!
(Photo: Priska Ketterer)
1st concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley as actor, supporting role played by Sir Simon
Abschiedssinfonie...
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.
Extra applause for solo clarinet Wenzel Fuchs
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
Peter Brem
Rüdiger Liebermann
Walter Seyfarth
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
Lucerne impressions by Janusz Widzyk
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
Amihai Grosz (with hat), Peter Jacobus and Janusz Widzyk
Stefan Schweigert, solo bassoon, gets a very well deserved extra applause after Shostakovich 4th.
(Photo: Markus Weidmann)
