Music festivals belong to summer. Magdalena is returning to a pair of festivals whose audiences are eagerly awaiting her concerts: in her native Brno she will be closing the 29th year of the IMF Concentus Moraviae, of which she is the patron. In Verbier, Switzerland, audiences can look forward to her not only in a song recital, but also in Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 3.
On Wednesday 10 July Magdalena will be welcomed by the Beseda House in her native Brno. She is a long-time patron of the Concentus Moraviae festival, which in its nearly 30-year history has rarely been held without her performance. This year, together with the star pianist Kirill Gerstein, she will officially close the 29th edition of the festival with a song recital travelling from the picturesque landscape of the Moravian-Silesian borderlands to the Berlin cabaret halls of the early 20th century. Magdalena with Leoš Janáček will pay tribute to the beauty of Moravian folk songs. It will continue with Wolf's musically diverse pieces, inspired by the changing moods of Mörike's poems, including a hilarious satirical waltz describing a critic's fall down the stairs. Rachmaninov's Six Songs follow, with sumptuous textures and chromaticism set to texts by modern Symbolist poets, and the evening closes with Schoenberg's flirtatious Cabaret Songs. A musical feast for true music lovers!
Magdalena will offer the same programme to audiences in the Swiss Alpine village of Verbier; the famous festival there enters its fourth decade of existence this year. In addition to a recital with Kirill Gerstein on 22 July, Magdalena will perform together with the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the choirs Oberwallier Vokalemsemble and Cantiamo under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle in Mahler's great Symphony No. 3. The opening concert of the 31st edition of the festival will take place on 19 July at the Salle des Combins, and those who cannot make it to Switzerland can watch the concert live on Medici.tv or RTS.
Look for details of the programme in the calendar; updates and photos will spring up like mushrooms on Magdalena's Facebook or Instagram.
