International demand for concerts from the Bregenz Festival and Schubertiade
Vienna (OTS) – Every year, a team from ORF Vorarlberg records numerous concerts at the Bregenz Festival and the Schubertiade Hohenems and Schwarzenberg. The EBU (European Broadcasting Union), as the umbrella organization of European public broadcasters, provides these high-quality productions to radio stations worldwide. As a result, the concert recordings produced by ORF Vorarlberg reach a culture-loving audience of millions around the world.
ORF Vorarlberg recordings carry music into the world
In 2023, ORF Vorarlberg produced recordings of four performances from the Bregenz Festival and 19 concerts from the Schubertiade. For example, the Bregenz Festival’s Verdi opera “Ernani” was broadcast by 17 foreign radio stations (including in Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden) and reached an additional 3.3 million culture enthusiasts outside Vorarlberg via Radio. The chamber concert by the Pavel Haas Quartet from the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg was broadcast by 25 foreign radio stations and heard by 9.3 million people beyond Vorarlberg.*
The ORF Vorarlberg production team with music recording manager Stefan Höfel and the sound engineers Christoph Maria Holzer and Bernhard Torghele ensured the first-class quality of the recordings.
25 ORF Vorarlberg concert recordings also in 2024
This year, ORF Vorarlberg is once again bringing musical highlights from the Vorarlberg concert year all over the world. Lovers of classical music can look forward to recordings of four productions from the Bregenz Festival and 21 recordings from the Schubertiade. In 2024, the Bregenz Festival will be able to hear, among other things, the opera production “Tancredi” by Gioachino Rossini (live on Ö1 on July 18th, 7:30 p.m.), the orchestral concert of the Vienna Symphony with conductor Giedrė Šlekytė and the Vorarlberg cellist Kian Soltani (July 22nd ) and the matinee of the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra with chief conductor Leo McFall (August 18). From the Schubertiade, for example, recordings of the piano recital with Paul Lewis (June 21st), the piano recital with Marc-André Hamelin (June 22nd), the chamber concert of the Jerusalem Quartet (October 4th) or the song recital with Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide ( August 29th) for Ö1 and subsequently for the EBU.
Markus Klement, regional director of ORF Vorarlberg: “We are proud to have a highly qualified team and the necessary technology at ORF Vorarlberg in order to make so many high-quality musical treasures accessible to an audience of millions, coupled with the appropriate know-how. Classical music from and in Vorarlberg from the Bregenz Festival and the Schubertiade is made accessible all over the world.”
Stefan Höfel, music recording manager ORF Vorarlberg: “It is a great honor for the sound engineers at ORF Vorarlberg and me that our work is also so appreciated internationally. Millions of people around the world listen to the productions we record in Vorarlberg.”
* Quelle: Ö1 International Relations / EBU European Broadcasting Union
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