The Salonorchester Cappuccino
in Gewandhaus Leipzig
in Gewandhaus Leipzig
The Salonorchester Cappuccino is an ensemble founded in Leipzig in 1989 and dedicated to the cultivation of salon music as a form of upmarket light music.
The Salonorchester Cappuccino is an ensemble founded in Leipzig in 1989 and dedicated to the cultivation of salon music as a form of upmarket light music.
In 1989, some students at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig got together to make music at a party. Their common fondness for salon and coffeehouse music kept them together longer, and together with one of their teachers they founded an ensemble dedicated to this genre. Because of the reference to the coffee house, they chose the name "Salonorchester Cappuccino". Its leader is the violinist Albrecht Winter. [1]
After initially sporadic performances at private parties, public concerts soon followed and finally, from 1995, a regular concert series under the title "Das gibt's nur einmal" (There's only one time for that), named after the film hit by Werner Richard Heymann, which is heard at the end of each of these concerts. Initially, the concerts took place in the Alte Handelsbörse in Leipzig. Due to a lack of space, it became necessary to move to the Mendelssohn Hall of the Gewandhaus in 1999. In the meantime, the concert series, with six concerts per season, has become an integral part of the subscription programme of the Gewandhaus Leipzig. It had to be extended to two dates per concert due to strong demand. [2]
In the meantime, most of the students of that period are in various orchestras or teach at music colleges. However, they like to get together for the Leipzig concerts or for concert tours, such as to classical music festivals in the summer of 2009 to the Mozart Festival Würzburg, [3] the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele [4] and to the Altenburg music festival [5] as well as to the Walkenrieder Kreuzgangkonzerte. [6]
The repertoire of the Salonorchester Cappuccino is very versatile. It includes not only the popular melodies of the Viennese operettas or the German film hits as well as the character pieces of coffee house music. On the one hand, it ranges from less frequently played arrangements of "serious classic and opera cross-sections to more swinging rhythms of American-influenced dance music of the 1920s, from musicals to titles of the entertainment orchestras after the Second World War. Vocal interludes by the leader are also included from time to time. [7]
The concerts, especially those in the "Das gibt's nur einmal" series, each have a specific theme. Geographical regions, seasons, anniversaries and many other occasions and circumstances can determine the selection. Composer portraits are offered under the title "Zum Fünf-Uhr-Tee bei ...". However, not only pieces by the reference person are played, but also references to predecessors and contemporaries are made. Repetitions of titles from earlier concerts do not occur.
A trademark of the "Cappuccino Concerts", however, is especially the informative, witty and entertaining conferences by Albrecht Winter.
| 1. Violin and direction: | Albrecht Winter (Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) |
| 2. Violin: | Eva Heinig (Orchester der Musikalische Komödie Leipzig) |
| Violoncello: | Hartmut Becker (freelance) |
| Double bass: | Felix Raddatz (Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach) / Claus-Peter Nebelung (Staatskapelle Halle) |
| Flute / Saxophon: | Thomas Reimann (Musikalische Komödie) |
| Oboe: | Pawel Kondakow (Hofer Symphoniker) / Klaus-Peter Voß (Staatskapelle Halle) |
| Clarinet: | Marco Thomas (Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen) / Jan Doormann Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar |
| Trombone: | Tobias Hasselt (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) |
| Piano: | Horst Singer (Professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig) |
Riccardo Chailly is an Italian conductor. He is currently music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, since 2016, and music director of La Scala, since 2017. Prior to this, he held chief conducting positions at the Gewandhausorchester (2005–2016); the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1988–2004); the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1982–1988); and the Teatro Comunale of Bologna (1986–1993). He was also the first musical director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (1999–2005) and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1983–1986). Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as the world's best living conductor.
Robert Gilbert was a German composer of light music, lyricist, singer, and actor. His father was Max Winterfeld, a composer and conductor who went by the pen name of Jean Gilbert. His brother was Henry Winterfeld, an author of children's books. Sometimes described as a "divided author", his early depression-era poem "Stempellied" about living on the dole was set to music by Hanns Eisler. But "Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehen" and "Das gibt's nur einmal", became his better known work.
Dejan Prešiček is a Slovenian saxophonist.
Dieter Dorn is a German theatre director, also for the opera, the manager of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1983 to 2001 and now manager of the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel.
The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra was a German chamber orchestra, founded in 1969 in Berlin, dedicated to the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his contemporaries.
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum is a chamber orchestra, founded in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It follows the tradition of collegia musica, developed by Johann Sebastian Bach, also in Leipzig. The orchestra is dedicated to historically informed performances, based on the latest research.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tokarev, born 15 September 1983 in Moscow, is a Russian pianist.
Andrea Lauren Brown is an American soprano and second prize winner of the 2003 ARD International Music Competition. Often appearing as Andrea Brown, she has performed at international venues and festivals, and has made recordings of rarely played sacred music including cantatas by Christoph Graupner.
Wulf Konold was a German musicologist, dramaturge and theatre director.
Georg Hanstedt was a German violinist. He was a long-standing member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and played in various string quartet formations. In 1934, he became a violinist of the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He made recordings in the 1960s as second violin of the Schuster Quartet.
Anton Jivaev is a Russian violist who made an international career as orchestra player, chamber musician and soloist. From 2012, he has been violist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, and from 2015 violist of the Gewandhaus Quartet.
Jürnjakob Timm is a German cellist and university lecturer. He played for over forty years in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Quartet.
Fritz Kirmse is or was a German violinist and university lecturer. From 1934 to 1936 he was appointed to the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. From 1937 to 1939 he was first concertmaster of the Orchester des Opernhauses Halle.
August Louis Hermann Heinrich Schachtebeck was a German violinist, conductor and university lecturer.
Silvia Weiss is a German operatic and concert soprano.
The Leipziger Symphonieorchester (LSO) is a German symphony orchestra based in the town of Böhlen near Leipzig. It is the symphony orchestra of the districts of Leipzig and Nordsachsen.
The Walkenrieder Kreuzgangkonzerte have been the annual music festival of Walkenried Abbey in Lower Saxony Göttingen district since 1983.
Founded in 2017, thee Hanke Brothers is a chamber music ensemble, which moves between the music genres minimal music, Neue Musik, classical and pop music.
Albrecht Winter is a German violinist, Kapellmeister and academic teacher.
The David Orlowsky Trio was a German music ensemble founded in 1997 and disbanded in 2019.
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
