Dresden Staatskapelle November 15, 2008

For more than four and a half uninterrupted centuries, the Dresden Staatskapelle has earned the raves of admirers from Heinrich Schütz and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Seiji Ozawa, and Sir Colin Davis. The weight of such a distinguished history can be intimidating to even the most confident of artists, but under the direction of its recently appointed music director, Fabio Luisi, the orchestra has opened its newest chapter by adding critical rave after critical rave to that history.

Frequently invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and numerous other of the world’s premier symphonic ensembles, the energetic Luisi celebrates the orchestra’s legacy-defining 60-year relationship with Richard Strauss on this limited US tour by presenting two of the composer’s finest works.

Known for his “rapturously heartfelt playing” (The Washington Post), cellist Jan Vogler will join the orchestra in Strauss’ Don Quixote, and Luisi will call on the full forces of the orchestra in rendering the composer’s most lavish of tone poems, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life).

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