What Thielemann did next
mainHe’s topping out the day-long, Europe-wide Franz Liszt events with a concert from Bayreuth, where the great composer slowly died while his daughter Cosima kept the summer festival running. Still, at least he got a cheerful mausoleum. And Thielemann is now, to all intents and purposes, music director at Bayreuth.
Tonight’s programme, on BBC Radio 3:
6.30 City Hall, Grosses Festspielhaus, Bayreuth (LIVE)
Wagner: Overture to ‘Tannhäuser’;
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S. 125; Totentanz, symphonic poem (Paraphrase on ‘Dies irae’).
Konstantin Sherbakov (piano),
Orchestra of the Weimar Liszt School of Music,
Christian Thielemann (conductor).
Aha, after doing Don Juan with the RAM orchestra, he is now doing a full program with another student orchestra. Not a bad week for supporting youth and education.
Most curioius why Thielemann was so quickly dropped from the orchestra position in Munich. That doesn’t look good at all.
You can go to the Arte television website and click on Arte +7. The video of this concert from Weimar is up for the next five days or so.