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KlassikPhilharmonie Hamburg
Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
The KlassikPhilharmonie Hamburg (previously Hamburger Mozart-Orchester) was founded in 1978 by conductor Robert Stehli. The orchestra’s repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the Modern period. In addition to concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Mozartfest Würzburg as well as international tours, the KlassikPhilharmonie is a regular and welcome guest in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle.
Konzert zum Valentinstag
Laeiszhalle, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
The text refers to the Ensemble of the New Philharmonic Hamburg, a German orchestra.
Upcoming Concerts
Concerts in Hamburg in season 2024/25 or later
Today
Sào Soulez Larivière, viola
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Experience the most exciting young personalities of the classical music world for a whole week – the Rising Stars Festival makes this possible. Chosen from the most famous concert halls in Europe, six excellent young musicians use the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall to give the Hamburg audience sonic samples of their star potential. The festival kicks off with the Franco-Dutch violist Sào Soulez Larivière, whom the Elbphilharmonie itself nominated as its personal Rising Star for the 2024/25 season and who was already a guest in the »Teatime Classics« series. Larivière builds his programme around an equally rare and fascinating combination: the sonorous sound of the viola impacts on the kaleidoscope of sound of the percussion. The violist gets support from drummer and former Rising Star Christoph Sietzen – and this extraordinary line-up naturally does not offer standard repertoire, but a programme selection full of surprises and discoveries, which Larivière presents as a young artist with an open mind and mature personality.
Osan Yaran
Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
»Aus Prinzip!« (»Out of principle!«) – is the name of Osan Yaran’s brand new programme. Husband, family man and ex-Lidl store manager. With his daily reels on the Internet, the multiple award-winning comedian always reaches hundreds of thousands of viewers. He quickly built up a huge fan base, which also quickly stormed his live performances. After a first sold-out tour, »Aus Prinzip!« is now his second programme, with which the hopeless idealist will be touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland from autumn 2024!
Ensemble Resonanz / Leila Josefowicz / Claire Chase
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
»Man is only completely a man when he plays.« Friedrich Schiller already understood it, and Ensemble Resonanz and Leila Josefowicz provide the proof: they light-footedly dismantle their world, reassemble it and take their audience on a boundless adventure of discovery. The Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall turns into a playground of creativity: from Leoš Janáček to Pauline Oliveros, they arrange a diverse musical collage, unhinge Bach, pile up the building blocks of life with Felix Mendelssohn and awaken the homo ludens in the audience. A new work by the playful Dai Fujikura lets the soloists soar like birds in spirals over the musical playing field, while the orchestra also picks up momentum. A concert becomes a thrilling carousel ride!
Tomorrow
Carlos Ferreira, clarinet
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
The illustrious circle of »Rising Stars« 2024/25, selected from the great European concert halls, includes clarinettist Carlos Ferreira – although the title of a Rising Star almost seems too small. Solo clarinettist of the Orchestre National de France, prize winner of the famous ARD Music Competition and recipient of the solo artist prize from the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – the Portuguese star is already high in the sky! Ferreira presents a broadly-based programme that he designed together with pianist Pedro Emanuel Pereira. Both of them had already recorded an album together in 2023 and, as a well-functioning duo, carry off the Hamburg audience into the most diverse soundscapes. The spectrum of the evening ranges from the supple elegance of Claude Debussy via the warm melancholy of Johannes Brahms to the charming preposterousness of Francis Poulenc. If that is not enough variety for anyone, they can look forward to brand new music by young Chinese composer Lanqing Ding with the commissioned work for Carlos Ferreira.
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / James Gaffigan
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
In his mid-forties, James Gaffigan is already music director of two major opera houses: the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. For his debut with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the American conductor has chosen dramatic incidental music for the programme. Gaffigan opens the concert with the beginning of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera »Khovanshchina«. It is a gloomy portrait of the mores of Tsarist Russia, but the composer gave the introduction the idyllic title »Dawn on the Moskva«: soaring string sounds merge into gentle flute tones, which are gradually joined by other wind instruments.
January 24, 2025
Quatuor Agate
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
At the Rising Stars Festival, the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall again becomes the stage for the most exciting musicians of the young generation in January 2025. Amongst these stars of tomorrow is the Quatuor Agate, as the only ensemble. The string quartet formed in Berlin in 2016 and the musicians’ joint career long since assumed an international format. The Guardian enthuses about the Brahms debut album by the four Frenchmen: »Warm, wonderfully refined sound, impeccable intonation and punctilious attention to detail.« Under the heading »Outlaws«, the Quatuor Agate presents a well-thought out concept programme in Hamburg with String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich at its heart. Under the impact of the tyranny of his Russian homeland, Shostakovich created a piece of bloodcurdling intensity in 1960 that he saw as his own musical obituary. Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps, Raphaël Pagnon and Simon Iachemet surround this confessional music with a broad-based programme combination which ranges from the Renaissance to the present day. Projections accompany the programme and shine a light on the life of the composers. With singing, the musicians rise far above their usual role as instrumentalists in the commissioned composition by Anna Korsun.
Mandelring Quartett / Roland Glassl
Laeiszhalle, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Mandelring Quartet
January 25, 2025
Workshop: Klassiko Special
Elbphilharmonie, Kaistudio 2 (Hamburg)
Have you ever heard of a double bass recorder? Or of the Indian shrutibox? For the workshop »Klassiko Special« we have unpacked some of the most unusual instruments from the Elbphilharmonie’s huge collection, which participants can try out themselves. The serpent, the waterphone or the giant tubax: there are true rarities waiting to be discovered here! Please note: this workshop is aimed at young people aged 16+ and adults. Children younger than 16 may not participate in this workshop. All participants need a ticket.
NDR Family Concert
The composer Johannes Brahms is on holiday at Lake Starnberg. He takes a room in an inn, hires the rickety piano so that no one else will disturb him with their tinkling, and plays a melody that he can’t get out of his head. He plays it again and again, changes it – and then he’s right in the middle of composing. And there they are: the variations on the beautiful »Chorale St Antoni« – a real catchy tune.
Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
Bernhard Lang's Playing Trump 2021, a contemporary composer, traces the words of a despot, collected in peacetime and set to music during wartime. The rhetoric of power shamelessly inverts murderous plans, elevating hypocrisy and blatant lies to principles. The libretto by Dieter Sperl exposes the contradictions and justifications for war.
Elbphilharmonie Audience Orchestra
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
In the Audience Orchestra, dedicated amateurs rehearse with great enthusiasm and at a very high artistic level under conductor Michael Petermann, the director of the Hamburger Konservatorium. Each year the orchestra gives two performances in the Grand Hall and further concerts in Hamburg districts, in which they play the pieces they’ve been practicing so intensively.
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Glenn Miller founded his first band in 1937. More than 80 years later, the Glenn Miller Orchestra under Will Salden plays the great bandleader’s swing hits, which sound no less fresh and lively now than they did back then.
Viva el Tango
Laeiszhalle, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Hardly any other dance is so sensual, melancholic and at the same time full of joie de vivre – this concert, titled »Viva el tango«, is devoted entirely to the »Tango argentino«. In the spotlight: Carlos Gardel, one of the most brilliant tango composers of the 1930s, and Astor Piazzolla, who decisively developed the virtuosic Tango Nuevo of the 1950s. The highlight of the evening: a thrilling dance performance by renowned artists Karin Solana and Andres Sautel.
BOVIY
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Vogue Germany chose Boviy as one of the most exciting newcomers of 2023 and describes her EP »The Upside Down« as a »balancing act between creative reincarnation and self-discovery, an act of liberation and declaration of war on old-fashioned role models and toxic ideals of beauty.« And that puts it in a nutshell quite well because Boviy no longer wants to be dictated to by a male-dominated music industry – and makes delightfully unorthodox pop with powerful lyrics, lush arrangements and, above all, boundless energy. Her singles and EPs already released give rise to great expectations from her debut album »When the Bubble Pops«: »The Upside Down« and »The Right Way Up« are set up as antitheses. If she is still fighting her demons on the first EP, she has fled from all of them on the second and sings freely: »I’m good all on my own!« Boviy’s songs are disarmingly honest, all stories from her own life, nothing sugar-coated, nothing left out or added, everything experienced herself, she sings without mincing her words. Incidentally, she not only writes her songs herself, but is also behind the artwork, conceptualises and edits her music videos herself and has set up her own label. However, she likes being on stage singing best!
January 26, 2025
Symphoniker Hamburg / Magdalena Kožená / Gergely Madaras
Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy were both influenced by the same musical movement. Fauré's orchestral suite from his incidental music to "Pelléas et Mélisande" is considered his finest orchestral work. Israeli conductor and composer Ohad Ben-Ari, based in Berlin, will premiere his song cycle "Paterson" with the Hamburg Symphony. The cycle is based on Ron Padgett's poetry from Jim Jarmusch's film. Olivier Messiaen's "Poèmes pour Mi" is a tribute to his wife Claire Delbos, written during her pregnancy. Smetana's "The Moldau" will be performed, reflecting the fact that the Vltava (Moldau) river contributes more water to the Elbe than the Elbe's own source.
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / James Gaffigan
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
In his mid-forties, James Gaffigan is already music director of two major opera houses: the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. For his debut with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the American conductor has chosen dramatic incidental music for the programme. Gaffigan opens the concert with the beginning of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera »Khovanshchina«. It is a gloomy portrait of the mores of Tsarist Russia, but the composer gave the introduction the idyllic title »Dawn on the Moskva«: soaring string sounds merge into gentle flute tones, which are gradually joined by other wind instruments.
Workshop: Klassiko Special
Elbphilharmonie, Kaistudio 2 (Hamburg)
Have you ever heard of a double bass recorder? Or of the Indian shrutibox? For the workshop »Klassiko Special« we have unpacked some of the most unusual instruments from the Elbphilharmonie’s huge collection, which participants can try out themselves. The serpent, the waterphone or the giant tubax: there are true rarities waiting to be discovered here! Please note: this workshop is aimed at young people aged 16+ and adults. Children younger than 16 may not participate in this workshop. All participants need a ticket.
NDR Family Concert
Where is the waltz at home? Exactly, in Vienna. It was there that the North German composer Johannes Brahms was inspired and became an enthusiastic waltz pianist. But wouldn’t »singing waltzes« be even more beautiful, he thought. Of course, and so he composed the entertaining »Liebeslieder-Walzer«. Singing and dancing along is definitely encouraged!
Elbphilharmonie Kreativorchester
Elbphilharmonie, Kaistudio 1 (Hamburg)
Members of the Elbphilharmonie Kreativorchester (Creative Orchestra) have rehearsed together for five months now – for the grand finale, they present a concert in the Elbphilharmonie Kaistudio. All beginnings are easy in the Kreativorchester. Even the people who have not yet mastered an instrument or do not have time to play every week are invited to take part in the orchestra and draw on a wide range of experience. At the final concert, participants prove that kitchen utensils, one’s own body and plenty of improvisation can be used to create an orchestra.
An Evening of Heinz Erhardt with Andreas Neumann
Laeiszhalle, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Parodist Andreas Neumann is a master at bringing popular comedians, humourists and film stars of the economic miracle years back to life. The press describes him as »the best Heinz Erhardt since Heinz Erhardt« and even Grit Berthold, daughter of Heinz Erhardt, acknowledges, »When I heard Andreas Neumann, I thought my father was alive again.« In addition to Heinz Erhardt, Neumann parodies other personalities such as Heinz Rühmann, Theo Lingen and Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Neumann fans also get their money’s worth: because the programme always includes newly written texts. Extensive laughter is virtually guaranteed for everyone!
Ariadne auf Naxos
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Großes Haus (Hamburg)
"It is a simple and tremendous problem of life: that of fidelity", is how Hugo von Hofmannsthal described the core of their third opera together, Ariadne auf Naxos, in a letter to Richard Strauss. To live does not mean to persevere and hold on to what has been lost. If you want to live, you have to let go, forget, get over yourself - constantly transform yourself. This is what a young opera composer experiences in this work when he is confronted with the stubborn wishes of his patron; just like the protagonist of his opera, Ariadne, who, abandoned by her lover, Theseus, expects only death. But things turn out differently... Strauss and Hofmannsthal let the opposites collide: Tragedy and comedy, light music and grand opera, playfulness and seriousness. Thus, in the mirroring of art and life, between gaze and gaze, the unfathomable mystery of transformation takes place. Musical Direction: Kent Nagano Production and stage: Dmitri Tcherniakov Dramaturgy: Angela Beuerle, Michael Sangkuhl
Moka Efti Orchestra
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
The Moka Efti Orchestra, the original 14-piece big band from the hit German TV show »Babylon Berlin«, invites you to travel back in time a hundred years to the »roaring« 1920s. In 1929, the year the series is set in, the world was a very different place. Berlin was wild, dirty, glamorous and party-loving. In the »Moka Efti«, one of the city’s entertainment palaces, people danced the Charleston to opulent big-band numbers. The Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall is now transformed into a dance hall itself when the Moka Efti Orchestra, led by composers Nikko Weidemann and Mario Kamien, and saxophonist and arranger Sebastian Borkowski, bring back the music and the feeling for life of that bygone era.
Mitsuko Uchida / Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
Mitsuko Uchida is one of the greatest Mozart interpreters of our time. The Classical composer’s piano concertos form the centrepiece of her collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which the Japanese pianist has been closely associated as an »Artistic Partner« since 2016. In their joint programmes, two of Mozart’s 27 piano concertos each frame the work of a different composer. In the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall, the rhythmic 18th and the colourful 21st frame Leoš Janáček’s wind sextet Mládí (»Youth«). Mozart wrote these two piano concertos in the space of just one year. In 1784/1785, the composer in his late 20s was riding a wave of success as one of Vienna’s leading pianists, offering his public ample opportunity to marvel at his skills as a virtuoso and composer. The wind sextet by Czech composer Janáček, on the other hand, can be seen as »a kind of reminiscence of youth«. It was composed in 1924 during a three-week stay in his birthplace Hukvaldy, and looks back on his »youth» on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
January 27, 2025
Benjamin Kruithof, violoncello
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
Each year, the European Concert Hall Organisation selects six Rising Stars and sends them on a journey through its member concert halls. The young stars of 2024/25 also include cellist Benjamin Kruithof, who thanks to his »classy, cantabile and lovely tone« (bachtrack.com) emerged as the winner of the George Enescu Cello Competition in 2022. He can wholeheartedly display this beautiful tone at the Elbphilharmonie. After all, the programme culminates in the almost infinite melodies of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata. However, first of all, Kruithof gives the evening a poetic start with the »Trois Pièces« by Nadia Boulanger and then presents his Rising Star commissioned work by British composer Sally Beamish. It continues with music by Benjamin Britten, who always knew how to produce a superb balance of modernity and sensuality in his works. In the five movements of his cello sonata, a real kaleidoscope of moods and textures evolves in which the melodic flair of the cello already appears several times. Rachmaninoff propelled this unrivalled ability to span the broadest arcs in his large-scale sonata to a glittering climax and lets the cello paint sensually over the edge – a fitting end!
Grand Chinese New Year Concert 2025
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
The traditional Chinese New Year concert unites cultures, brings symphonic masterpieces of classical Chinese music to the stage and opens up new musical horizons. Every year for more than 25 years, first-class traditional Chinese orchestras have performed in leading concert halls during the Chinese Spring Festival, offering a rich blend of China’s diverse musical cultures.
January 28, 2025
Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
Bernhard Lang's Playing Trump 2021, a contemporary composer, traces the words of a despot, collected in peacetime and set to music during wartime. The rhetoric of power shamelessly inverts murderous plans, elevating hypocrisy and blatant lies to principles. The libretto by Dieter Sperl exposes the contradictions and justifications for war.
Manon
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Großes Haus (Hamburg)
A coming-of-age story, recurring conflicts with parents, and first love, Manon is a young girl full of hopes, dreams, and an irrepressible desire for life. Manon is to enter a convent and sees her desire for a free, self-determined life fading. However, she falls head over heels in love and flees to Paris, the city of love and opportunity. Director: David Bösch Sets: Patrick Bannwart Costumes: Falko Herold Lighting: Michael Bauer Dramaturgy: Detlef Giese Premiere: 24.01.2021 Supported by the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper and Mrs. Else Schnabel
Matilda Lloyd, trumpet
Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)
British trumpet player Matilda Lloyd looks self-confidently at her nomination as a »Rising Star«, which she brings to the big European concert halls within one season: »My future self inspires me. I have a very clear idea of where I want to go, what I want to do and who I want to be and that helps me to grow every day.« Inspired by this, she presents a complete audio-visual artwork. The seven movements of the »Framed« cycle by Cecilia McDowall structure the programme: played separately, they weave music by Claude Debussy, Enrique Granados, Amy Beach, Deborah Pritchard and others, complemented by projected images and videos. Matilda Lloyd not only plays the trumpet, but also reads poetry – a kaleidoscope of the most varied sensations!
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor / Jordi Savall
Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)
It is considered one of the great unfinished works in the history of music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s »Great Mass« in C minor. He probably composed it following his wedding to singer Constanze Weber; unlike with his Requiem, at least Mozart’s death did not prevent the completion of the mass. Although remaining fragmentary, this outstanding mass setting is touching to this day due to its direct expressive power. With his Le Concert des Nations established in 1989, Catalan gambist, music researcher and conductor Jordi Savall had already often been a guest in Hamburg. As an expert in early music and historical performance practice, he consistently gives the audience new listening experiences – in particular with frequently played works. Because Savall is not only interested in music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but he also elicits new aspects from the seemingly well-known classics. The ensemble and its conductor recently demonstrated this in 2021, for instance, with their Beethoven cycle; now, they tackle Mozart’s »Great Mass«.
January 29, 2025
Ariadne auf Naxos
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Großes Haus (Hamburg)
"It is a simple and tremendous problem of life: that of fidelity", is how Hugo von Hofmannsthal described the core of their third opera together, Ariadne auf Naxos, in a letter to Richard Strauss. To live does not mean to persevere and hold on to what has been lost. If you want to live, you have to let go, forget, get over yourself - constantly transform yourself. This is what a young opera composer experiences in this work when he is confronted with the stubborn wishes of his patron; just like the protagonist of his opera, Ariadne, who, abandoned by her lover, Theseus, expects only death. But things turn out differently... Strauss and Hofmannsthal let the opposites collide: Tragedy and comedy, light music and grand opera, playfulness and seriousness. Thus, in the mirroring of art and life, between gaze and gaze, the unfathomable mystery of transformation takes place. Musical Direction: Kent Nagano Production and stage: Dmitri Tcherniakov Dramaturgy: Angela Beuerle, Michael Sangkuhl