Last weekend, the Philharmonie Salzburg and Elisabeth Fuchs took the concert audience in the Great University Hall on a journey into oriental musical worlds. The sensitive playing of violin soloist Cosima Soulez Larivière enchanted the audience, as did the impressive reading by actor Frederic Böhle, who provided a literary backdrop to the concert evening.
After a brilliant anniversary season (the Philharmonie Salzburg celebrated its 25th anniversary in October 2023), an exciting new season begins for Elisabeth Fuchs and her orchestra next June and a new era with the planned move to their own rehearsal house in Salzburg-Nonntal. The concert program remains firmly anchored in classical orchestral concerts, but also reflects the willingness and courage to break new ground in order to make classical music accessible to as many people as possible.
The audience of the innovative concert series MITTEN IM ORCHESTER rejoiced at an extraordinary interpretation of Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto in D minor and Beethoven's magnificent 7th Symphony. The new subscription cycle of the Philharmonie Salzburg and Elisabeth Fuchs will take place in a new venue in the city of Salzburg from the coming season.
On Wednesday evening, the concert audience in the Mozarteum Great Hall was treated to two highlights: firstly, Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, which improvisational wonder Galina Vracheva garnished with playful jazz cadenzas. Secondly, Beethoven's magnificent 7th Symphony swept through the almost sold-out concert hall - and led to real storms of enthusiasm.
On Thursday, 22 February, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed the late Romantic program that had already been acclaimed the previous Wednesday in the Mozarteum Great Hall at the Center for Visions, proving to be not only bold in terms of its program, but also in terms of its setting.
In the Mozarteum Great Hall on Wednesday evening, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two highly emotional orchestral works in a late Romantic setting: Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" and Alexander von Zemlinsky's orchestral fantasy "The Mermaid".
What does it sound like when mice and pirates play Astor Piazzolla, Camille Saint-Saëns and W.A. Mozart? If they have rehearsed as diligently as the dedicated young talents of the Salzburg Children's & Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, really well!
The city senate and municipal council have decided to purchase the prospective rehearsal building for the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg's Nonntal.
Acclaimed premiere of an unconventional musical encounter: the Herbert Pixner Project, together with the large choir and orchestra of the Salzburg Philharmonic under Elisabeth Fuchs , celebrated a cross-genre music festival in front of the Grosses Festspielhaus, which was sold out four times.
Together with solo guitarist Cecilio Perera and the popular ensemble Trio Negro, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two acclaimed Christmas concerts with Latin American temperament in the twice sold-out Great University Hall Salzburg.
