Festival-Eröffnung
Tonkunstler Orchestra · Katia & Marielle Labèque · Fabien Gabel
POULENC / STRAUSS
Cast
- Orchester Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich
- Klavier Katia und Marielle Labèque
- Dirigent Fabien Gabel
Programm
- 00:20:00 Francis Poulenc
- - Pause -
- 00:50:00 Richard Strauss
Supporting programs
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Festival OpeningHow to book
Bad weather alternatives 2025
With the renovations of the historic Reitschule in 2025, the following changes will occur for the supporting programme such as introductions and preludes as well as for the bad weather alternatives in categories 7 and 8 (lawn seating):
During the festival, there is a bad weather option for the evening concert for categories 7 and 8 (lawn seating) in the state rooms of Grafenegg Castle.
Customers in category 7 can attend a video broadcast in concert setting.
Customers in category 8 can watch a video broadcast in a cosy atmosphere. You may lay out your picnic blanket and consume the food and drinks you have brought with you, take a seat on the beanbags provided or use the armchairs provided. The catering station offers snacks and drinks for sale as well.
Discounts
Tickets at shop.raiffeisenbank.at and in all Raiffeisen banks with oeticket sales in Lower Austria and Vienna with up to 10 % discount for Raiffeisen account holders.
Anyone under the age of 26 receives a 50 % discount on the ticket price (available online or in the box offices).
With a valid disability card you receive a 50 % discount, a registered accompanying person can attend the concert free of charge (only bookable in the box offices).
Ö1 Club members receive a 10 % discount on 2 tickets. The discount does not apply to the bus transfer Vienna - Grafenegg - Vienna.
Description
Dawn, a blazing sunrise, a majestic mountain peak, a tempest, mild evening light: if there’s one piece of music that works ideally under the open sky, then it’s the «Alpine Symphony» by Richard Strauss, a grandiose first for Tonkunstler Orchestra Music Director Fabien Gabel at his inaugural Festival opening in Grafenegg. While Strauss pushed the limits of the orchestral means of his time, Francis Poulenc created a masterpiece of finely engraved ensemble play in his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra. For decades, the sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque have been setting a perfect example of the instrumental ping-pong that Poulenc demands of his soloists here. Between dazzling virtuosity and mildly ethereal retrospection to Viennese Classicism, this is one of the most impressive creations in the history of music.
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