Yearning for home

Under the motto “Heimat. My Homeland”, Klosters Music will take the audience on an exciting journey into the musical world of 18th and 19th century Bohemian Romanticism on a total of eight concert evenings from Saturday 31 July to Sunday 8 August. While Mozart’s love of Prague is the musical focus at the beginning of the concert series with Symphony No. 38 in D major (“Prague Symphony”) and Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major and a selection of arias and overtures, the second evening with the Janoska Ensemble will focus on the great tradition of rhapsody from past to present. The Orchestra La Scintilla and Christiane Karg promise a homage to the splendour of the Baroque, while the organist Rudolf Lutz turns to well-known themes and improvisations on Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Dvořák on 4 August. In turn, Sir András Schiff will take the audience on a real master’s journey to the musical cradle of Europe on 5 August with a selection of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and violinist Christian Tetzlaff unfold the tension between the homeland and strangers with Bedřich Smetana’s famous “Moldau” and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major on the following day. Another highlight is Antonín Dvořák’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, performed on 7 August by Steven Isserlis and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the baton of Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. This masterpiece allows us to experience first-hand not only Dvořák’s profound homesickness during this creative period in the US but also his sense of loss following the death of his beloved at this time. The concert series will conclude with “Cinema Paradiso”, also a premiere: for the first time, Klosters Music will be dedicated to film and film music.