Sommernachtskonzert 2022 / Summer Night Concert 2022

ABOUT THE EVENT

With this open-air concert in Schönbrunn, the Vienna Philharmonic wishes to provide all Viennese, as well as visitors to the city, with a special musical experience in the impressive setting of Schönbrunn Palace and its beautiful baroque gardens, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.

Since 2008 the Vienna Philharmonic has provided an outstanding experience for the audience. In the recent years the orchestra has been conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach and Zubin Mehta. Among the previous guest soloists were: Renée Fleming, Lang Lang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Anna Netrebko, Yuja Wang, Jonas Kaufmann and Igor Levit. It is Sony Classical´s tenth release of the Summer Night Concert.

ABOUT THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC

The tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic goes back to 1842 when Otto Nicolai conducted a Grand Concert with all members of the imperial Hof-Operntheater. This event was originally called Philharmonic Academy and is regarded as the origin of the orchestra. Since its founding the orchestra is managed by the administrative committee a democratically elected body and works artistically, organizationally, and financially autonomously. All decisions are reached on a democratic basis during the general meeting of all members.

ABOUT GAUTIER CAPUÇON

Gautier Capuçon is a true 21st-century ambassador for the cello. Performing internationally with many of the world's foremost conductors and instrumentalists. Committed to exploring and expanding the cello repertoire, Capuçon performs an extensive array of works each season and regularly premieres new commissions. In the 2021/22 season, Capuçon appears with, amongst others, the philharmonic orchestras of Vienna/Alain Altinoglu, Munich/Giedre Slekyte and New York/Yu Long; the Concertgebouworkest/Myung-whun Chung, Cleveland Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas and Mariinsky/Valerie Gergiev. He is Artist-in-Residence at the Paris Philharmonie as well as the Wiener Konzerthaus. In addition, Capuçon plays at festivals worldwide, including the Enescu, Rostropovich, Prague Spring, St. Denis and Evian festivals.

ABOUT ANDRIS NELSONS

Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. These two positions, in addition to his leadership of a pioneering alliance between both institutions, have firmly established Grammy Award-winning Nelsons as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.

Andris Nelsons first worked with the Vienna Philharmonic in October 2010 and has been a regular and invariably welcome guest since then, not only at the orchestras subscription concerts in the Vienna Musikverein and at the Salzburg Festival but also on tours of Asia, the United States and Europe. So far he has appeared more than eighty times on the podium of the Vienna Philharmonic. Lately, he conducted the prestigious New Years Concert 2020.

FEATURES:

• The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is the world's biggest annual classical open-air concert that takes place in the magical setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna (Concert date: June 16, 2022)
• After two years, the concert will now take place as usual again with a full audience and open to public
• This year we have chosen a European musical program that emphasizes our common European musical heritage with its diverse facets and rich musical traditions. In consultation with Maestro Nelsons, a composition by the contemporary Latvian composer Arturs Maskats will be performed for the first time, as well as a work of Mykola Lysenko, a prominent individual in the musical history of Ukraine- Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic
• The program further includes musical favorites from Beethoven and Rossini to Smetana and Dvorák
• The soloist on the evening's program will be the French cellist Gautier Capuçon, who will perform Camille Saint-Säens' Concerto for Violoncello No. 1, op. 33.
• Maestro Andris Nelsons and soloist Gautier Capuçon will have their summer night concert premieres.

ANDRIS NELSONS & WIENER PHILHARMONIKE

SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2022 / SOMMERNACHTSKONZERT 22