CONCERT AT ARENFELS CASTLE
08/October/2024 11:54
THE COLOGNE NEW PHILHARMONIC celebrates AUTUMN
The 2024 Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra concert season will continue in autumn at Arenfels Castle in Bad Hönningen, Germany. Humorous, entertaining, and unforgettable moments await you on November 3, 2024, at the matinee at 11 a.m. and another concert at 3 p.m. in the extraordinary ambiance of the vaulted hall of SCHLOSS ARENFELS.
Classical highlights include Antonio Vivaldi's "Autumn" from the "Four Seasons," Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, W.A. Mozart's excerpts from "The Magic Flute," and virtuoso works by Luigi Boccherini and Johann Pachelbel. Volker Hartung and his Chamber Orchestra invite you on a journey through time from the Baroque to the Romantic period and their ingenious music from Venice via Salzburg to Bad Hönningen.
The musicians have immersed themselves in the playing style and sound aesthetics of the time and interpret popular classical music in its unique style, framed by virtuoso solo pieces. For many years, Volker Hartung has been presenting his audience with serious, cheerful, contemplative programs from the rich repertoire of popular classical music in his enchanting way.
With his catchy and humorous manner, he inspires his audience again and again, creating a connection between orchestra, music, and the auditorium. From beginners to connoisseurs, everyone will find access to the many facets of classical music at their concerts.
Under its umbrella, a unique platform offers young prizewinners of international instrumental competitions the opportunity to participate in extraordinary concert projects beyond the boundaries of their professional lives.
It is run by 'Friends and Patrons of the Cologne New Philharmonic e.V.', a non-profit association that supports the orchestra's mission as a musical ambassador of a peaceful world by integrating numerous foreign young artists now living in Germany.
ENTRANCE FEES: Adults 49 € (1st category), 39 € (2nd cat.), 29 € (3rd cat.), Students 19 €.
Children up to 12 years of age, accompanied by a full-paying adult, have free admission.
Presale:
Genusskontor im Schloss Arenfels 0, 53557 Bad Hönningen
Bookstore Löhr, Bischof-Stradmann-Str. 22, 53557 Bad Hönningen, Phone: 02635 29 98
Café Schmidt, Hauptstrasse 120, 56598 Rheinbrohl, Phone: 02635-2313
Werber bookstore, Hauptstraße 40, 53604 Bad Honnef, Tel.: 02224-2601
Engel & Völkers, Hauptstraße 29, Bad Honnef, Tel: 02224-9889690 & Kaiserstraße 66, 53721 Siegburg
as well as at the box office 1 hour before the start of the two concerts at Arenfels Castle
Children up to 12 years of age, accompanied by a full-paying adult, have free admission.
Information:
Friends and Patrons of the Cologne New Philharmonic e.V.'
www.colognenewphilharmonic.com
Phone: +49 (0)177 275 90 52
Email: info@colognenewphilharmonic.com
PHILHARMONIC CONCERT IN COLOGNE
30/September/2024 09:15
It is run by a non-profit association that supports the orchestra's mission as a musical ambassador and promoter of a peaceful world by integrating numerous young foreign artists living in Germany.
IL SOGNO VENEZIANO - DREAMS OF THE BAROQUE at the KOELNER PHILHARMONIE!
Volker Hartung and the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra welcome their Cologne audience. With its traditional symphony concert in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the group is taking a sound journey via baroque Leipzig to Venice this year! The Cologne New Philharmonic returns to the Philharmonie.
Thus inspired, the program begins on 5 February 2025 with the Concerto in rare instrumentation for four violins and orchestra, which Antonio Vivaldi presumably composed for the orphan girls of the Venetian Ospedale, where he taught violin from 1704. He later dedicated it to the Tuscan hereditary prince Ferdinand.
Vivaldi's wonderful Concerto for guitar and orchestra follows next. Like hardly any other work by the "Red Priest," it reflects the incomparable charm and magic of the lagoon city. The wonderful Oboe Concerto in D minor by the Venetian Alessandro Marcello, which owes its popularity to the harpsichord arrangement by Johann Sebastian Bach, is next to be heard.
In the second half of the concert follows the 3rd orchestral suite by Johann Sebastian Bach, Vivaldi's great admirer and admirer. He created one of the most beautiful and best-known Baroque movements with the famous "Air."
The soloists of the evening are the Australian guitarist Vladimir Gorbach and NN., oboe.
Volker Hartung is the moderator and conductor. At the end of the concert, the young virtuosos of the orchestra will, of course, once again ignite a festive firework of virtuoso encores and look beyond Cologne, Leipzig, and Venice.
We promise you an unforgettable experience, one that will leave you with a heart full of music and memories to cherish!
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 8 p.m. Cologne Philharmonic, Bischofsgartenstraße 1
Tickets are available at 0221 / 280 280 and koelner-philharmonie.de and all KölnTicket booking offices.
One can obtain the remaining tickets at the box office from 6.30 p.m.
Fabulous article by Jerry Dubins from Fanfare Magazin
07/October/2018 20:59
Jerry Dubins, music critic from „Fanfare Magazine“ in USA has written a fabulous and legendary review about the new 2-set album of Johannes Brahms’s piano concertos with Italian pianist Filippo Faes and the Cologne New Philharmonic under the direction of Volker Hartung
Here is the link:
http://fanfarearchive.com/ntbm/articles/faes-dubins.html
Here is the link:
http://fanfarearchive.com/ntbm/articles/faes-dubins.html
