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The Erzgebirge Music Festival is a music event in the Saxon Erzgebirge , which has been sponsored every two years since 2010. Concerts and musical competitions are organized as part of the music festival. The organizer, the “Musikfest Erzgebirge non-profit UG”, feels obliged to classical music with a focus on early music . At the festival, however, the music is often reinterpreted, performed with surprising arrangements or made to sound in extraordinary interplay. In addition to churches such as Freiberg Cathedral and concert halls, the concerts also take place in unusual locations - e.g. B. in disused mines and old industrial and social buildings. In 2016 u. a. the former municipal bath in Annaberg-Buchholz and the former greenhouse of the Saigerhütte Grünthal in Olbernhau.

The initiator and director of the music festival, which was founded in 2008, is the German conductor and university professor Hans-Christoph Rademann . The chairman of the board of trustees is the district administrator of the Erzgebirgskreis , Frank Vogel . The President of the Saxon State Parliament, Dr. Matthias Rößler is the patron.

In 2010 the Erzgebirge Music Festival started its first round from September 3rd to 12th with 10 concerts in 10 locations. They were the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Dresdner Kammerchor, Hans Christoph Rademann, the Flanders Recorder Quartet, the Ensemble Chelycus, the Young Baroque Orchestra, Jeremy Joseph, David Orlowsky & Singer Pur, Simon Halsey & Kantoreien and the RIAS Chamber Choir in concert to experience.

In 2012 , from September 14th to 23rd, a. The Sixteen, Annette Dasch with the Dresdner Barockorchester and Hans Christoph Rademann, the Regensburger Domspatzen, NeoBarock, King's Singers, the Dresdner Kammerchor, Dorothee Mields, Albrecht Koch, Evgeni Koroliov, Simon Halsey and Le concert spirituel can be heard in concert and to see.

In 2014 , from the 12th to the 21st, the Erzgebirge Music Festival took place for the third time. There were u. a. the following artists and ensembles can be heard and seen: Wrocław Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Vaclav Luks, the Erzgebirgsphilharmonie with Helmuth Rilling, the Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, the Ensemble 1700, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Daniel Heyde and Tobias Berndt .

In 2016 , from September 9th to 18th, the Gaerchinger Cantorey with Hans Christoph Rademann, Planotopia, the Ensemble XY, the Kosmos Ensemble, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Intrada with the conductor Ekaterina Antonenko, Voces8 , La Folia Barockorchester, the Wiener Choir boys and the Bach Consort Vienna, Ensemble Diderot, Barokksolistene and the Baroque Orchestra Wrocław in concert.

In 2018 , from September 6th to 16th, Mahan Esfahani, the Erzgebirgsphilharmonie and the Kantoreien des Erzgebirge under the direction of Howard Arman, Ensemble Stimmwerk and the Latvian Radio Choir, Dresden Chamber Choir with Hans Christoph Rademann, the Hanover Boys Choir, Plamena Nikitassova and Thomas Leininger, Franz Viththum, Julian Behr, Mayumi Hirasaki, Christine Schornsheim and Michael Freimuth,

Another novelty in 2018 were the Baroque Circus Rooms, which took place as part of the music festival on the market square of Annaberg-Buchholz. The baroque orchestra La Folia played live with 8 artists in the style of the circus of 1768. This year is considered to be the birth of the modern circus. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk recorded an event and broadcast it on September 9, 2018.

Individual events of the music festival are recorded and broadcast in cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur and Deutschlandfunk .

The next Erzgebirge Music Festival will take place from September 4th to 13th, 2020 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program for 2016
  2. ↑ Facebook page of the music festival
  3. ↑ Press release of the Erzgebirgskreis dated February 1, 2012 ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lra-ek.de
  4. ↑ Musikfest Erzgebirge program book 2012. Accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Press release Musikfest Erzgebirge 2014. Accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Program book Musikfest Erzgebirge 2016. Accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Musikfest Erzgebirge program book 2018. Accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Baroque Circus Dreams Erzgebirge Music Festival 2018. Accessed on February 25, 2019 .