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DW Festival Concerts
DW's picks of the season with host Rick Fulker.
Along with presenting Germany's top festivals, DW makes a foray to the South this quarter for the Salzburg Festival and to the East, to Moscow.
In Salzburg, it's Mozart from the source, with the Mozarteum Orchestra, its principal conductor Ivor Bolton and violinist Renaud Capucon. From Moscow, we present a major rediscovery of works by Tcherpnin and Golovanov.
The mood is transcendental and meditative in a concert of sacred music from the Stuttgart Festival, dedicated to that genre.
A quickly rising star on the firmament of pianists, Russian-born Igor Levit, joins forces with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and conductor Ivan Fischer at Kissingen Summer.
Paavo Järvi has headed the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra for a year now; listen in on the results in a concert at the Rheingau Music Festival. Then there's a performance of avant-garde and popular music, audacious and fun, from the Berlin Festival.
And not to forget: stellar moments from the most recent Beethoven Festival in Bonn, including two piano duos saluting John Cage just days after the 100th anniversary of his birth. Gilles Apap gives a startling, improvisation-rich rendition of the classics with many surprises. Two Americans, conductor Kent Nagano and pianist Kit Armstrong, give their take on Beethoven. And the venerable Borodin Quartet begins a fascinating, three-year cycle of string quartets by Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Not least of all, we've put you within earshot of the future of music with prize winners at the renowned ARD Music Festival in Munich.
Whatever the scene, the performances are all of electrifying artistry and the recordings of superb "made in Germany" quality. And Rick loves nothing more than sharing the wealth, which includes the artists' own voices.
All programs are produced to a uniform length of 1 hour, 58 minutes.
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