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abgeFRACKt: Cello Flow

Classical music on four strings
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05/22

Friday | 05/22/2026
7:30 pm Start of Concert
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal

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About the Concert

With Edward Elgar's Serenade for Strings, we begin our short concert. It was the first "hit" of the English composer. Right from the start, a mysterious, almost floating atmosphere is created by softly plucked strings, known as pizzicati. The slow middle movement is particularly famous. Its warm, heartfelt melody is so beloved by the English that it is still often heard at weddings or memorial services.<br>In contrast, the story of Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major begins almost like a little musical detective story. For around two hundred years, the score lay unnoticed in the Prague National Library, and no one suspected that it was by Haydn himself. It was only in 1951 that the original manuscript was discovered. Since then, the work has become one of the most popular cello concertos of all time. It is no wonder, as it combines virtuosic brilliance with wonderfully lyrical melodies, as if the cello were singing a grand operatic aria without words on stage.<br><br>At our abgeFRACKt concerts, things are a bit different: the orchestra does not wear tails on stage. No one has to worry about clapping at the wrong moment. <br>Anyone who wants to learn more about the music can download the free Wolfgang app onto their smartphone and receive live explanations about the work during the concert. Afterwards, we invite you to stay and enjoy the abgeFRACKt cocktail (also non-alcoholic), a glass of wine or beer at Café "Tutti", to relax, chat, or gaze out over the city from the balcony.

Programme

Edmund Finnis
“Hymn” (after William Byrd) (2023) for string orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach
Selection from the Suites for Solo Cello

William Lawes
Fantasy in G minor arranged for strings, harp, and percussion by Andrew Manze

Edmund Finnis
Cello Concerto (European premiere)

Artists

Andrew Manze
Conductor
Konstanze Pietschmann
Cello
Dresdner Philharmonie

Biographies

Andrew Manze

The multi-award-winning conductor Andrew Manze not only brings boundless energy, deep musicality and warmth to the stage, but also extensive academic knowledge and years of experience as a violinist and specialist in historical performance practice. Until the summer of 2023, the likeable Briton was Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. Since 2018 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, since autumn 2024 he holds the same position with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

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Konstanze Pietschmann

1st Principal Cello

The young cellist Konstanze Pietschmann developed a passion for the cello at a very early age thanks to her musical upbringing and received her first lessons from Gerda Scharf at the age of three. After studying in Anna Niebuhr's class for young talent at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, she began studying music at the same university in 2018 in the class of Prof. Peter Bruns.

She has won prizes at several national and international competitions.

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Dresdner Philharmonie

Top Class!

Top class! That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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