Florian Christl

Florian Schroeder

Schroeder analyses, comments and parodies. From politics to the small events of everyday life. Twelve months in two hours – fast, funny, wicked and not a second boring. Shout »that’s enough!« endless times, while laughing at the madness of an entire year. At the end of the evening the audience will say: Enough? No, more of that! All right – next year then!

Florian Christl & Ensemble

Florian Christl, his piano and an ensemble of strings are the ingredients for an intense concert evening of a special kind. The programme consists solely of pieces that the Munich-based pianist and composer has written himself. Some of these have already been released on CD, while others are new to the public. Composing is a personal, almost intimate process for Florian Christl, a process where he is alone with his music. Improvisation plays an important role: there are moments where Christl, as he says himself, escapes reality to feel alive, absorbed in his own thoughts. The result is a mixture of thrilling drama and lyrical contemplation combined with moving strings arrangements.

Florian Heinisch / Klavierabend

With this recital, Hamburg pianist Florian Heinisch returns to the Elbphilharmonie once again after acclaimed concerts in 2019 and 2023. The programme is a tribute to the enormous stylistic diversity that has made the musical city of Hamburg a unique force in the world of classical music to this day. »I may have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg« – this statement by John Lennon about his beginnings with the Beatles in the Hanseatic city also fits many biographies and careers in classical music.

Florian Boesch | Malcolm Martineau

Throughout his life, Robert Schumann sought the "poetic", most notably in his song cycle Dichterliebe. Florian Boesch, a leading Lieder singer, embodies this quest. In 1840, Schumann composed numerous songs, including Dichterliebe, uniting words and music. Boesch, with pianist Malcolm Martineau, masterfully explores the Romantic world of these Lieder.

Florian Krumpöck / Piano Recital

Following his successful Chopin and Brahms recital, the exceptional Austrian musician, Sony Exclusive Artist and »marvellous pianist« (Daniel Barenboim) returns to the Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie with a piano recital entirely dedicated to Franz Liszt on his own Bösendorfer concert grand piano. Krumpöck, who is also giving solo recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Salle Cortot Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and in Munich and Madrid during the current season, also performs as a conductor in leading concert halls and opera houses and enchants his audiences particularly in his dual role as pianist and conductor. His second solo programme at the Elbphilharmonie is all about captivating virtuosity, orchestral sound and the most intimate, soulful moments.

Peter Sloterdijk & Florian Boesch in Conversation

»Foreign is the foreigner only in a foreign land« – André Heller is using these words from a half-Dadaistic, half-philosophical text by the comedian and author Karl Valentin as the theme for his Reflektor festival. And with the lines »A stranger I arrived here, a stranger I go hence« begins perhaps the best-known song cycle of the romantic period: the »Winterreise« by Franz Schubert. At the start of André Heller’s »Reflektor«, the contemporary philosopher Peter Sloterdijk meets with the baritone Florian Boesch to talk about the sense of alienation emanating from the »Winterreise«. Florian Boesch, whom you can otherwise also experience in major opera and oratorio parts, has a particular passion for lieder. And the »Winterreise« with its lonesome wanderer on a futile journey through darkness and cold particularly attracted him: he has already recorded it twice and interpreted it countless times in concert – even theatrically. »The Winterreise is simply magnificent. The snowy landscape is its soul, its spirituality.« Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most important contemporary German philosophers and is internationally considered as a great thinker. This eloquent prolific writer is a popular voice in all great contemporary debates, from current political issues and climate change to feminism. His »Critique of Cynical Reason« is one of the best-selling philosophical books of the 20th century. Please note: This event takes place in German.

In St. Florian Monastery with Herbert Blomstedt

Barclay James Harvest feat. Les Holroyd

50 years ago, Barclay James Harvest and founder Les Horloyd started their musical journey in Manchester. Probably the most subtle representatives of Classical Rock came together in 1967 and have been delighting audiences with their melancholic classical rock and esoteric spherical sounds. Now the British band is going on tour in Germany again.

Achim Reichel & Band

Achim Reichel, the father of German rock music, celebrates his 80th birthday in January 2024 and looks back on a life’s work of unparalleled, innovative versatility. To mark the occasion, he is releasing both a live double CD with the tour repertoire and a single with his remake of the Hildegard Knef classic »Aber schön war es doch«.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac

In 1969, Fleetwood Mac sold more records than the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. The band’s album »Rumours« from 1977 is one of the most successful albums in music history. No wonder that a huge fan base rallied around the band – and still does today! »Rumours of Fleetwood Mac« was established in 1999 to pay tribute to this unique band that shaped the zeitgeist of the 60s to the 90s. To call this band, consisting of seven musicians, a tribute band would be too short-sighted. »It’s about their music« is their tour motto, which they decided on several years ago. In this sense, they try to perform the music of Fleetwood Mac as faithfully as possible and, above all, to revive the spirit of this worldwide celebrated band and its time. The love of Fleetwood Mac’s music has been embodied by the Liverpool-based band for the past 24 years as they tour America, Canada, the UK and Europe – and even with the blessing of the original band’s co-founder and drummer, Mick Fleetwood: »An extraordinary emotive performance of Fleetwood Mac!«