PROJECTS

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Feltz initiated this mammoth project, which could only be realized 2 years later due to the pandemic: All 9 of the master's symphonies in one day, played by 2 orchestras from 2 countries, with soloists and choirs from 6 other countries, performed in both Germany and Serbia.

In June 2022, a total of more than 15,000 people attended this series of performances. In the European Capital of Culture 2022 Novi Sad, the the crowning finale with the 9th Symphony was described as the "concert of the year". Filmmaker and director Jan-Philip Behr has captured the intensive preparations over several years, the coming together of two orchestras that had never played together before and the many challenges on the way to a special triumph of art in this documentary film.

In 2017, Gabriel Feltz conducted an open-air concert in Belgrade together with Zubin Mehta, which has gone down in cultural history in the cultural history of the Balkans to this day with over 30.000 enthusiastic spectators. Admission was free and people came from all over Serbia not to miss this event. The almost 3-hour program included 20 different compositions. Watch a recording here and immerse yourself in the incomparable atmosphere of a legendary evening, often referred to as the »Woodstock of classical music«.

Gabriel Feltz took a lot of time for his highly acclaimed Mahler cycle. The work on this complete recording took a total of 15 years, which was realized with the Stuttgart and Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra. Two orchestras of which Gabriel Feltz was chief conductor for a long time and with whom he realized many performances of Gustav Mahler's symphonies. All the recordings are also recordings of live performances and certainly convey a concert atmosphere. Fono Forum praised him for »recordings conceived with a cool head«, about "a production of unleashed sound contrasts", wrote the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. »A superbly recorded new cycle of the 'complete' symphonies....Listen, love and learn afresh.« commented Rob Cowan after the release of all the compact discs in a box set from England and »Courageous, unique and irresistible. An interpretative milestone in the history of Gustav Mahler's reception!« was how Dirk Schauss described the recordings in the Online Merker. This CD cycle also attracted a great deal of attention on the American market. This was Tim Pfaff's verdict in the Bay Area Reporter from San Francisco: »Meanwhile, the wild world of recordings serves up two new off-the-beaten-path readings of Mahler symphonies -Gabriel Feltz's of the Second, Francois-Xavier Roth's of the Fourth- guaranteed to shake loose the last cobwebs clinging to what are now the standard interpretations.«

The complete edition in a representative box contains a 108-page booklet with comments by the conductor on all the works as well as an original contribution by Volker Hagedorn.

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The world premiere of the exceptional opera »Die Tote Stadt« by the 23-year-old composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold on December 4, 1920 simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne was a sensational success, with Otto Klemperer himself conducting in Cologne. Exactly 100 years later to the day, Gabriel Feltz was given the honor of conducting another premiere of this masterpiece at the Cologne Opera as a celebratory anniversary of the premiere with the Gürzenich Orchestra.
Exclusive soloists such as Ausrine Stundyte and Burkhard Fritz performed the main roles. The online broadcast of this new production at a time when many opera houses were unable to offer any performances at all were unable to offer any performances at all, it attracted worldwide attention as a first-class cultural event.

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In a unique musical film that goes beyond the scope of conventional concert recordings, the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Gabriel Feltz, together with actress Julia Jentsch, soprano Stella Doufexis and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, help the monumental ballet »Belkis - Queen of Sheba« - the premiere in 1931 had around 600 participants! - to a triumphant comeback in a concert performance. This long-silenced masterpiece tells the mythical story of the Queen of Sheba, who embarks on an arduous journey of several years through deserts and wastelands to answer King Solomon's call - a fairy tale of beauty, power and wealth straight out of 1001 Nights.

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Julia Jentsch, Speaker

Stella Doufexis, mezzo-soprano

Metodi Morartzaliev, tenor

Petr Fiala, choral rehearsal

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Choir

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra

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Also available as a Blu-ray DVD.

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