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• Impressions 2013

  

  Take a look back at the 2013 Dresden Music Festival in pictures. Under the theme »Empire« more than 22 orchestras and ensembles, 17 choires and more than 60 conductors and soloists filled more than 20 locations with music and... read more

• Magnus Lindberg's »Kraft« in free replay for 90 days on medici.tv

  

  Much applause for the spectacular performance of Magnus Lindberg's »Kraft« at the Gläserne Manufaktur von Volkswagen. Featuring this thrilling event the residency of the New York Philharmonic ended.
  Following the live... read more

• First live broadcast of the Dresden Music Festival on medici.tv

  

  The residency of the New York Philharmonic concludes with a thrilling project – the performance of Magnus Lindberg’s »Kraft« at the Gläserne Manufaktur von Volkswagen on May 14. The concert has been sold out within a short... read more

• Posters of the Dresden Music Festival available

  

  Wherever you see it, it is a real eye catcher: the impressive Empire motif that translates this year's theme into a visual language. Friends and fans of the Dresden Music Festival now can decorate their own walls with it. The... read more

• Season’s Greatings

  

  The Dresden Music Festival wishes you and your familiy a joyful and happy holiday season and a healthy, successful and musically enriching New Year.
  We would like to thank you for your loyalty and enthusiasm and are looking... read more

• Meet The Brits - William Byrd

  

  In today’s episode of »Meet the Brits« we take a look into the life and work of English renaissance composer William Byrd. Sources are divided over his birth date: Byrd was probably born between 1538 and 1540 in Lincolnshire and... read more

• Meet The Brits - Tobias Hume

  

  Today’s episode of »Meet the Brits« is dedicated to the English composer and viol player Tobias Hume. We just know very little about his life. Probably born in 1569, Captain Hume earned his living as mercenary in the Swedish and... read more

• Meet The Brits -Benjamin Britten

  

  Today in the second part of »Meet the Brits« we want to introduce composer Benjamin Britten. Britten, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1913, was given »Life Peerage« as the first composer ever. About his music he says himself: »For... read more

• Meet The Brits - Sir Edward Elgar

  

  »Meet the Brits« is the name of our new series, in which we will regularly present British composers, whose music, according to our theme »Empire«, is in the centre of the program of the 2013 Dresden Music Festival.
  At first... read more

• New festival recording CD of the week on radio BR Klassik

  Only recently released and already CD of the week: the new recording of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Symphony No. 5 with The Nights and Jan Vogler, Colin Jacobsen und Antti Siirala. We are delighted that the unconventional... read more

• New Image Film of the Dresden Music Festival

  We are delighted to present our new image film (author: Andrea Thilo) right with the start of the new Festival season. Director and Director of Photography Nicolas Hudak has woven festival artists and impressions from our venues... read more

• Ticket sale has started

  On October 1, the ticket sale for the 2013 Dresden Music Festival has started. Tickets can be booked by phone at + 49 (0)351-656 06 700, by e-mail to read more

• New CD of the Dresden Music Festival – Exclusive Offer

  

  As a prelude to the 2012/13 season the Dresden Music Festival presents its second CD with the New York ensemble »The Knights« and its conductor Eric Jacobsen. For their latest project the »Knights of Music« and soloists Colin... read more

• Press conference on the 2013 Festival season

  In a press conference on September 25, Jan Vogler announced the program for the 2013 Dresden Music Festival that will explore the sound worlds of the musical island England under the theme »Empire«. Look forward to three exciting... read more