The Staatskapelle Dresden Comes To Lincoln Center For White Lights Fest

Following a five city tour of the West Coast, The Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the greatest and oldest orchestras in the world, will come to Lincoln Center as part of the White Lights Festival. The distinguished British conductor Daniel Harding will lead this 450 plus year old venerable orchestra on October 31 in Brahms' Requiem followed on the next day by an all Beethoven program featuring Deborah Voigt singing the challenging Beethoven aria "Ah! Perfido" and Viennese super star pianist Rudolf Buchbinder will offer Beethoven's Piano Concerto #4 G Major, op.58. Please feel free to contact me for interviews, further material or visit: www.staatskapelle-dresden.de For your convenience, I have attached the complete 8 City tour itinerary of the Staatskapelle Dresden which also includes Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Founded: September 22, 1548 - Dresden, Germany
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (The Dresden State Orchestra of Saxony) celebrated its 450th Anniversary on 22. September 1998. Founded in 1548 by Elector Moritz of Saxony, it is not only one of the oldest orchestras in the world and most rich in tradition, but it may well be the only one which has continuously played for more than four and a half centuries and which at the same time has always been one of the leading orchestras during various epochs. Heinrich Schütz already knew in the middle of the 17th century that it may shine forth and be praised as a light among Protestant chapels. Jean Jacques Rousseau characterised the orchestra as "...the one with the most balanced forces and the most perfect ensemble". In 1823, in one of Beethoven's conversation booklets is stated: "It is generally said that the Dresden Hofkapelle is the best orchestra in Europe." For Richard Wagner it was a "miraculous harp", and Richard Strauss called it "the best opera orchestra in the world." Seiji Ozawa, after recording "Salome" in 1991, said, " This orchestra is a dream", and for Sir Colin Davis it is "the most individual orchestra".

Staatskapelle Dresden
Daniel Harding, Conductor
Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano Soloist

Sunday, October 31, @ 3:00 PM
Avery Fisher Hall
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Box-office-212-875-5000 or 212-875-5140

Program

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Monday, November 1 @ 8:00 PM
Avery Fisher Hall
"Ah! Perfido" op.65
(Soprano: Deborah Voigt)
Soloist: Rudolf Buchbinder, Pianist
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto #4 G Major, op.58
Symphony #7 A Minor,Op. 92