Orchester Wiener Akadmie Chinese New Year's Concert

Published on Jan 24, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: February 12-13, 2015

Prices: 180, 240, 320, 460, 520, 600, 800

Features: From Thursday February 12nd to Friday February 13rd, one of world's best orchestra - the Orchester Wiener Akademie will perform two Chinese New Year's concerts at National Grand Theatre(NCPA) in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Orchester Wiener Akadmie
Since its founding in 1985 by the distinguished conductor and organist Martin Haselb？ck, Orchester Wiener Akademie has gained international praise for its unmistakably Austrian musicality, virtuosity, refinement and energy. Orchester Wiener Akademie is the only Austrian orchestra to offer performances of repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and early Twentieth-Century eras on period instruments, as well as performances of contemporary repertoire on modern instruments.

In the past two seasons the orchestra has performed in more than 20 countries on three continents. They have appeared at international music festivals and concert series such as the Prague Spring Festival, Frankfurter Fest, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Klangbogen, Carinthischer Sommer, Cuenca Festival, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Handel Festival Halle and many others. The orchestra has appeared in major concert halls worldwide, including Barbican Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Toronto's Massey Hall, Chateau de Versailles, Palais Garnier, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Izumi Hall Osaka, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie K？ln, Palau de la Musica and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

The orchestra's annual cycle of concerts in Vienna's Musikverein has become a popular fixture in the city's musical calendar, with past guest-artists that include Daniel Hope, Thomas Hampson, Elisabeth Kulman, Cyprien Katsaris, Isabelle Faust, Soile Isokoski, Cecilia Bartoli, and many others.

As Orchestra-in-Residence of the International Liszt Festival in the composer's birthplace of Raiding, Burgenland, Wiener Akademie has received international acclaim for its ongoing series of groundbreaking concerts and recordings (NCA) of the complete orchestral music of Franz Liszt. The first CD release in the series, of the Dante-Symphony, was awarded several prizes, including the 2011 Grand Prix du Disque of the Liszt Society, Budapest. The subsequent releases of the tone poems have all been received with unanimous critical praise. Forthcoming releases in this series include the Faust Symphony, Piano Concertos and complete Hungarian Rhapsodies.