Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert makes good use of this coming September, showing some of the facets of her well-rounded voice.
At the International Bruckner Festival Linz, Pianist Helmut Deutsch accompanies her on a voyage that uses works by Bruckner’s students to explore the musical universe of the late- and post-romantic lied, and in that now mostly forgotten realm they find jewels that are very much worth our time.
Only two days later, Ms Rennert and the Accademia Bizantina present a virtuoso programme of baroque-era arias, from Vivaldi to Handel in Istanbul.
She ends her busy September with music from yet a third period: Together with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Genia Kühmeier, Walter Güra, and Johannes Weisser, she performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Monte Carlo and Aix-en-Provence.
International Bruckner Festival Linz
Brucknerhaus Linz
Lied recital: Sophie Rennert and Helmut Deutsch
Works by Franz Marschner, Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden, Hugo Wolf, and Max von Oberleithner
September 14th
Istanbul: Venedik Sarayı
Accademia Bizantina: “In Furore”
With arias by Vivaldi, Broschi, Porpora, and Händel
September 16th
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in d minor op. 125
Wit Genia Kühmeier, Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Kazuki Yamada cond.
September 26th – Monaco, Auditorium Rainier III
September 27th – Aix-en-Provence, Grand Théâtre