District - The Tutzinger Brahmstage, known far beyond the borders of the Five Lake District, will take place from October 10th to 24th this year. In cooperation with the KunstRäume am See by cultural designer Elisabeth Carr, five concerts are on the program this autumn. The main venue of the top-class concert cycle is traditionally the Tutzing Palace, seat of the renowned Evangelical Academy, with its unique ambience and the romantic park directly on Lake Starnberg.
The internationally acclaimed tenor Julian Prégardien will open the festival on October 10th with art and folk song arrangements by Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler in the Evangelical Academy. He is accompanied on the piano by Kota Sakaguchi. On October 14th, the second festival concert with two outstanding musicians is on the program in the auditorium of the Tutzinger Gymnasium. The clarinetist Roman Gerber, originally from Tutzing, and the pianist Oliver Bunnenberg at the piano will perform works by Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg and Leonard Bernstein in a particularly charming duo. On October 17th, the acclaimed pianist Martin Stadtfeld will play again in the Evangelical Academy - this time as a solo recital with pieces by Georg Friedrich Handel, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Masterful organ works by Brahms are at the center of the program on October 22nd after Johann Sebastian Bach and before Max Reger.
The renowned Tutzing church musician Helene von Rechenberg will be heard as the interpreter of only the second organ concert in the 24-year history of the festival in the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in Tutzing.
At the end of the festival, top-class string chamber music with the A minor string quartet by Johannes Brahms will be the highlight on October 24th.
The renowned Schumann Quartet with Erik, Ken and Mark Schumann and Liisa Randalu also plays pieces by Joseph Haydn and Leos Janácek in the Evangelical Academy.
In 1958, the world-famous pianist Elly Ney, also from Tutzinger, brought the "Tutzinger Musiktage" into being to commemorate the years of Brahms in Tutzing. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, the first Tutzinger Brahmstage took place in October 1997. Opera stars such as Jonas Kaufmann, Hermann Prey, Christian Gerhaher, Michael Volle or Franz Hawlata as well as outstanding musicians have performed here and interpreted works by Brahms and other composers. Johannes Brahms spent a summer in Tutzing in 1873 and was inspired to compose by the beautiful landscape. “Tutzing is far more beautiful than we could imagine,” wrote Brahms at the time.
“We just had a magnificent thunderstorm;
the lake was almost black, wonderfully green on the banks, it is usually blue, but more beautiful, deeper blue than the sky, plus the chain of snow-capped mountains - you can't get enough of it. "
Impressions that inspired Brahms to create important compositions such as the famous Haydn Variations op. 56. The organizer of the Tutzinger Brahmstage is the Tutzing-based Circle of Friends of the same name in cooperation with the KunstRäume am See by Elisabeth Carr.
Every year the concert cycle in autumn attracts classical music fans from near and far.
The Freundeskreis Tutzinger Brahmstage has around 160 members.
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