Gastspiel: Kasseler Musiktage

In the organizer's words:

A harpsichord concerto that is less than 100 years old? Yes, Francis Poulenc's Concert champêtre spices up the baroque sound with modern harmonies, and the liaison is furiously successful. And the theme of the suite is also explored in a very unique way in this concert: twice old, once new - whereby freshness is not a question of era. 20th century France looks back to the old masters of the Baroque: the conductor who takes on this special perspective together with the hr-Sinfonieorchester is Maxim Emelyanychev. The Russian is considered a shooting star of early music because he approaches his work without any attitude, but with extreme curiosity and a musical pulse. He conducts ensembles of historically oriented performance practice as well as large symphony orchestras. Emelyanychev himself will sit at the harpsichord for Francis Poulenc's lively and spirited Concert champêtre, as he loves conducting an ensemble from the keyboard: "It really is a completely different connection with the orchestra than when you are just conducting. You feel part of the whole."