Guangzhou Opera House 31 March 2024 - 2024 Women's Arts Festival Pure Series Antje Weithaas performs the complete set of Bach's "Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas and Partitas" | GoComGo.com

2024 Women's Arts Festival Pure Series Antje Weithaas performs the complete set of Bach's "Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas and Partitas"

Guangzhou Opera House, Experimental Theater, Guangzhou, China
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Sunday 31 March 2024
5 PM 7:30 PM

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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 17:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin sonata no. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin partita no. 1 in B minor, BWV1002
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin sonata no. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin sonata no. 3 in C major, BWV1005
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin partita no. 3 in E major, BWV1006
Overview

The orthodox sound of the German violin school.

"It's quite exciting and refreshing to actually hear the beautiful richness of Werthaus' tone and nuanced technique. In addition to the musical and intellectual majesty of these movements, in Bach's lilting, dancing movements you can Her deep understanding of the work was clearly heard.”
——"Gramophone Magazine"
 
The dynamic Antje Weithaas integrates gripping musicianship and superb playing skills into every detail of the music. Her charisma and stage presence captivated but never took away from the work itself. Her repertoire covers a wide range of genres, including concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, new violin concertos by Jörg Widmann, and works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina. Modern classical works and the less-performed concertos of Hartmann and Scheck.
 
As a violin soloist, Antje Werthaus has performed with many important symphony orchestras in Germany and internationally, including the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the major German radio symphony orchestras, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic , San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, British Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, as well as mainstream symphony orchestras in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Asia. She has worked with many distinguished conductors, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitry Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Jaco Jeff Kretzberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Calma.

Venue Info

Guangzhou Opera House - Guangzhou
Location   No.1 Zhujiang West Road, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District

Guangzhou Opera House is a Chinese opera house in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it opened on the 9th of May in 2010.

In April 2002 an international architectural competition attracted Coop Himmelb(l)au, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid – each producing detailed designs. In November 2002, Zaha Hadid's "double pebble" was announced the winner and the groundbreaking ceremony was held early in 2005.

The theatre has become the biggest performing centre in southern China and is one of the three biggest theatres in the nation alongside Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and Shanghai's Shanghai Grand Theatre. May 2010 saw American filmmaker Shahar Stroh direct the premiere production of the opera house: Puccini's opera Turandot which had in previous years been a controversial opera in China.

The structure was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. It is conceived as two rocks washed away by the Pearl River. Its freestanding concrete auditorium set within an exposed granite and glass-clad steel frame took over five years to build, and was praised upon opening by architectural critic Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian, who called it "at once highly theatrical and insistently subtle."

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Guangzhou, China
Starts at: 17:00
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