Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts

DW Radio and PRX are thrilled to announce the winter season of episodes of Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts for early 2019. Host Rick Fulker transports your listeners to some of the most exciting classical concerts of Germany’s festival season.

With more symphony orchestras than the rest of Europe combined, where else on the planet but Germany could your listeners find more musical excitement and diversity?

We'll take you there for an exciting world premiere from the Beethovenfest: composer Bernhard Lang's take-off on Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. Sneak preview: While paying respectful tribute to the original, it's a fun piece.

In a similar effort: Is any composer unaffected by Johann Sebastian Bach? Certainly not the two we meet at the Rheingau Festival, Uri Caine and Brett Dean, participating in a project with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra that pairs Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with newly commissioned works inspired by them.

What made Beethoven Beethoven? Celebrating the music tradition of the Rhineland, his home town explores that issue in two concerts with music that he heard and that shaped him as a child and a young man in Bonn – and that continued the Beethoven tradition after his death.

We all know what ten fingers can do at the piano – but how about twenty, or forty? That's the subject of another Beethovenfest program.

Meanwhile, in Saxony, two of that state's most venerable music organizations, the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, led by Herbert Blomstedt, pool their resources for a concert celebrating diversity and condemning racism.

From pride to gluttony and from sloth to parsimony, the Seven Deadly Sins have struck fear into the heart of many a sinner over the centuries – and inspired a lot of music. Full disclosure in a program with highlights from seven corresponding concerts at the Early Music Days in Herne.

We'll also hear the amazing artistry of the Moldavian-Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatschinskaja and violinist Carolin Widmann's take on Schumann's Violin Concerto. To wind things up: the tour program by conductor Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Orchestra. It rocks.

Recording quality throughout: Made in Germany. Audience excitement and ambience: palpable. Host and producer: Rick Fulker, eager to share it all in 26 programs in the fall and winter quarters.

Carry the entire series or use the programs as needed: With 364 days from release to expiration, the rights window is generous.

Stations may subscribe to the full 26-part series via PRX SubAuto, or may download individual episodes, including those from the past season where the rights window is still open.

Each program lasts one hour and fifty-eight minutes. Promos provided, custom-made if requested.

Questions? Contact Rick Fulker: rick.fulker@dw.com. Hide full description

DW Radio and PRX are thrilled to announce the winter season of episodes of Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts for early 2019. Host Rick Fulker transports your listeners to some of the most exciting classical concerts of Germany’s festival season. With more symphony orchestras than the rest of Europe combined, where else on the planet but Germany could your listeners find more musical excitement and diversity?We'll take you there for an exciting world premiere from the Beethovenfest: composer Bernhard Lang's take-off on Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. Sneak preview: While paying respectful tribute to the original, it's a fun piece. In a similar effort: Is any composer unaffected by Johann Sebastian Bach? Certainly not the two we meet at the Rheingau Festival, Uri Caine and Brett Dean,... Show full description