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Here is our pick of the best classical music festivals taking place across Europe during 2024. Don’t forget to also check out our useful guides to the UK’s best classical music festivals<\/a><\/strong>, and also to the best classical festivals in Canada and the USA<\/a><\/strong> this year.<\/p> We’ll run through 2024’s best European festivals country by country. Here goes. <\/p> Dresden, 9 May-9 June Dresden is pondering the theme of \u2018Horizons\u2019: cellist and artistic director Jan Vogler believes that the perception of classical music is changing, ushering in transformation. Over 60 events colonise some 21 venues for a festival bookended by the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Czech Philharmonic.<\/p> Conducted by Kent Nagano, the ongoing period instrument Wagner Ring<\/em> cycle<\/a><\/strong> reaches Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>; from Bach\u2019s B minor Mass to electro-pop duo \u00c4tna, Dresden\u2019s own cultural hinterland is explored; and in the German Museum of Hygiene violinist Patricia\u00a0Kopatchinskaja<\/a><\/strong> dusts down Schoenberg<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Pierrot lunaire<\/em>.<\/p> Leipzig, 7-16 June There might be 16 concerts given over to the chorale-cantatas, a closing traversal of the B minor Mass by Collegium Vocale Gent and the complete solo violin Sonatas and Partitas from Leonidas Kavakos, but in a busy ten days of Bachiana numbering over 150 events, not everything is resolutely brow-furrowing. In the Market Place, Bach<\/a><\/strong> goes Big Band, while the Babylon Orchestra fuses music from the Middle East, jazz\u2026 and Bach. His penchant for coffee<\/a><\/strong> and wine is imbibed, and a Bach Forest of 129,000 trees is planned to mitigate the festival\u2019s ecological footprint.<\/p>Best Europe classical music festivals 2024<\/h2>
Best classical music festivals Germany 2024<\/h3>
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