"Working with Bill Murray taught me that classical music doesn’t need an explanation." - Jan Vogler

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Jan Vogler - Cellist
Living the Classical Life: Episode 76
This episode introduces you to Jan Vogler, distinguished cellist and Europe's most innovative Festspiel Intendant. Irrepressibly optimistic, Jan explains how his upbringing in communist Germany fostered a deep understanding of freedom and how legendary cellist Heinrich Schiff taught him to be freely himself. In Jan’s musical universe, Schumann on gut strings hobnobs with Sting, and his cello is seated next to Bill Murray, which leads to a very eccentric collaboration between two like-minded free spirits.
Title cards:
1. Distinguished cellist Jan Vogler regularly performs with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and Montréal Symphony Orchestras, and the Mariinsky Orchestra, among others. He has collaborated with conductors, premiered multiple works by contemporary composers, and published over 20 CDs.
2. Vogler is Director of the renowned Dresden Music Festival and Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. He has received the European Award for Culture and the Erich-Kästner Award, and collaborated with actor Bill Murray for their joint musical-literary project “Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends - New Worlds.”
3. Jan Vogler Violoncello
Ivor Bolton Conductor
Dresden Festival Orchestra
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
in A minor, Op. 129
Robert Schumann
Courtesy of Dresden Music Festival (musikfestspiele.com)

[@MasmorraAoE]

Such a clear headed individual! Everything he says makes perfect sense and I as a musician can see myself in everything he says.
Fantastic interview.

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks for your kind words, Masmorra Voobly!

[@quaver1239]

Marvellous, thank you! This is my first “meeting” with Jan Vogler. He is very interesting and filled with enthusiasm for his beliefs which are certainly not the same as those of other classical music lovers! Thank also, again, to Zsolt Bognár who makes everything fascinating.

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks so much for watching, Oudtshoornify!

[@rotsteineva]

Wonderful interview, as always! 💖

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks so much, Eva R. B.!

[@EmEnz1]

What an amazing interview. Enthusiasm, warmth, broadmindedness... I am going to buy every recording of his Schumann concerto. His view that Schumann is on a par with Bach and Beethoven reflects my own feelings. Feelings that I feel I don't have the right to express because I don't know enough about classical music. All I know is that everything Schumann has written touches me emotionally in ways other composers do not. It was lovely to hear this expressed by someone who "knows his stuff".

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Sounds like you "know your stuff" too, EmEnz1, and we're glad you expressed your feelings!

[@briananderson8428]

Fabulous opening with the Schumann. His cello concerto to me is the highest representation of the entire instrument. Stunning playing.Thank you for asking about Schumann. And yes: even as a total non-professional musician, I do believe Schmann is on the tier with Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel...and many other beloved of our greatest composers. But that's only my opinion. I have no way to see if that is "truth".

[@cihant5438]

Is that a Klipsch Palladium in the background?

[@richterkleiber]

Good eye! I shall ask our venue hosts.

[@richterkleiber]

Yes, they have confirmed that you have a knowing eye!