Gürzenich-Orchester beendet Asien-Tournee

Gürzenich-Orchester beendet Asien-Tournee

http://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/traditionsorchester-guerzenich-orchester-beendet-asien-tournee,15184894,26318548.html

Peking. Zum Abschluss der Asientournee des Kölner Gürzenich-Orchesters in Peking hat Chefdirigent Markus Stenz eine positive Bilanz gezogen. „Es war eine großartige Tour“, sagte der Kapellmeister des Traditionsorchesters vor Journalisten. „Bei jedem Konzert ist dieser legendäre Funke, den wir auf die Bühne bringen wollen, auf das Publikum übergesprungen.“

Ein Konzert wie ein Crescendo

http://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/guerzenich-orchester-auf-asientournee-ein-konzert-wie-ein-crescendo,15184894,26313948.html

Schanghai. Mozart und Haydn sind in China nicht so der Hit, weiß der chinesische Musikkritiker Rudolph Tang zu berichten. "Sie werden bei uns nicht sehr oft gespielt", erzählt der junge Mann, der gleich für mehrere Zeitungen in Schanghai schreibt, aber auch Korrespondent der Musikzeitschrift "Gramophone" ist. Mit der Musik Ludwig van Beethovens verhält es sich da schon anders. Das Shanghai Symphony Orchestra habe kürzlich zwei Zyklen der neun Sinfonien gespielt. "Die waren komplett ausverkauft."

http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/koeln/article125134207/Koelner-Klaenge-begeistern-Asien.html

Hong Kong in festive mood

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/05/hong-kong-festive-mood.html

 Choreographed by Chloe Wong, also one of the dancers, Heaven Behind the Door is a dance about the meeting of “two halves of one’s soul”.

The dance is one of a series of five in the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Contemporary Dance Series, a program comprising as many as 50 musical, theatrical, dance and opera programs for the upcoming 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival, slated for Feb. 18 to March 23.

The London Symphony Orchestra, the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the Akram Khan Company, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, the Guerzenich Orchestra Cologne are among the international participants in the festival.

Hong Kong artists will be represented by Cantonese operas and dramas in the festival’s New Stage Series, which will stage four plays in Mandarin and Cantonese except for FILTH (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong), which is the first English-language play commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Ongoing Hong Kong Arts Festival features performances by leading global artists

http://www.travelbizmonitor.com/ongoing-hong-kong-arts-festival-features-performances-by-leading-global-artists-23293

The 42nd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) officially opened on February 18, 2014 with the performance by the Guerzenich Orchestra Cologne under the baton of Markus Stenz, as per a release. The Festival showcases 138 performances by Asia’s top talents alongside leading artists from around the world, an assorted mix of classical and contemporary works that reaches an audience of 1, 20,000 people including the participants of the Festival’s Young Friends Scheme, as per a release.

In addition to the 138 performances, two of which are free performances, the 42nd HKAF offers 222 PLUS events and 81 activities for Young Friends of the Festival. Programmes include 21 new works/world premieres, as well as 16 Asian premieres. The various theatre, music, dance and opera events will be conducted in different venues. Some of which are Hong Kong Cultural Centre, HK Academy for Performing Arts, and Hong Kong City Hall.

The Festival closes on March 23, 2014. Genres that can be witnessed at the 42nd HKAF include classical music, Chinese music, world music, Western opera, Chinese opera, drama and dance. Each festival includes concerts by each of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta.