Event: Rheingau Musik Festival – Opening Concert 1
Date: Friday 21 June 2025, 19:45 CEST
Location: Kloster Eberbach, Germany
Watch on: YouTube – Frankfurt Radio Symphony (video embedded below)
Performers:
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
MDR-Rundfunkchor
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
Diana Adamyan, violin
Anett Fritsch, soprano
Bogdan Volkov, tenor
Alexandre Duhamel, bass
Programme:
Maurice Ravel – Une barque sur l’océan
Pablo de Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen
Franz Waxman – Carmen-Fantasie
Charles Gounod – Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile
Broadcast live from Kloster Eberbach, the Rheingau Musik Festival opens its 2025 season with a program featuring orchestral, virtuosic, and choral repertoire. Under conductor Alain Altinoglu, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony performs Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan. Violinist Diana Adamyan plays Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen and Waxman’s Carmen-Fantasie. The concert closes with Gounod’s Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile, sung by the MDR Radio Choir and three vocal soloists. The setting is the historic 12th-century basilica—the festival’s traditional launch venue.
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