From star to star
Two top-class guest professor concerts as part of the 63rd Weimar Master Classes
The 63rd Weimar Master Classes at the Weimar University of Music start their first week with two top-class guest professor concerts. The first concert will be given by the former solo hornist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Prof. Jörg Brückner, on Tuesday. 18 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus together with Cora Irsen on the piano. Tickets at 20 euros, reduced 15 euros, are available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Jörg Brückner is one of the most sought-after interpreters and teachers in his field in Germany. His varied concert programme ranges from the gentle and melodious as well as rhythmic preludes of Yehezkel Braun to the refined structures of York Bowen's Horn Sonata and the moving "Lament for Horn Solo" by Yitzhak Yedid.
After the interval, the audience can expect the charming Divertimento by Jean Françaix, Olivier Messiaen's "Appel interstellare" ("Interstellar Call") with its extraordinary sound effects, and Jane Vignery's Sonata, which brings out all the melodic beauty of the horn.
One day later, guest professor Robert D. Levin can be experienced live. The pianist and musicologist is distinguished not least by his improvisational skills: In his guest concert on Wednesday, 19 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, he will also work with spontaneously notated themes. In his concert evening dedicated solely to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert D. Levin will also play sonata fragments completed by himself, as well as several sonatas, preludes and an opera overture transcribed for the piano.
Robert D. Levin has had a distinguished career as a performer as well as a researcher and music educator. He is particularly known for his expertise in 18th and 19th century music, especially the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
As a specialist in historical performance practice, he has studied intensively the compositional styles and techniques of past eras. This comprehensive understanding of the musical language enables him to improvise in a unique way - technically virtuosic, harmonically refined and musically highly sensitive.
More information: www.hfm-weimar.de/meisterkurse
[17 July 2023]