The Grafenegg Festival celebrates its 10 years’ anniversary! On this occasion, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, under the baton of Yutaka Sado, is joined by 22 alumni of the European Union Youth Orchestra and accompanied by top soloists Klaus Florian Vogt, René Pape, Camilla Nylund and Elena Zhidkova.

The jubilee includes this year’s Composer in Residence Christian Jost’s two commissioned works Fanfare and An die Hoffnung as well as Beethoven’s Overture Coriolan. With Beethoven’s 9th Symphony the evening reaches its climax. Due to the performance of “the excellent bass René Pape, the fabulous soprano Camilla Nylund and the great mezzo-soprano Elena Zhidkova along with the Wiener Singverein, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony turned out to be simply sensational. Jubilation!” (Kurier)

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Programme

CHRISTIAN JOST
Fanfare for 9 brass players

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Overture to Collin’s tragedy “Coriolan” Op. 62

CHRISTIAN JOST
“An die Hoffnung” for Tenor and Orchestra
after the song by Ludwig van Beethoven Op. 94

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in d minor Op. 125