Florian Christl & Ensemble

Florian Christl

His passionate playing and his equally exciting and deeply moving compositional style demonstrate Florian Christl’s all-encompassing love of music. The mix of sometimes soothing, sometimes powerful piano playing in combination with extraordinarily imaginative and moving string arrangements makes the music of the Munich-based composer and pianist unique. His music radically appeals to our innermost emotions, making his concerts an extremely captivating and moving experience.

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 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.

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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.

Ensemble Resonanz

Why would an ensemble that made its name performing rarities from early and contemporary music then turn to the most successful oratorio of the Baroque? Ensemble Resonanz would presumably answer, »Christmas without the Christmas Oratorio is only half the story. As often as you may have heard or played the piece, you still want to hear or play it again.« The ensemble has been performing its own version of Bach’s Christmas classic for six years now – pared down and with unconventional instrumentation, a little like a concert at home for friends. The concert hall becomes a sitting room, the musicians become a choir, and the work becomes chamber music with Baroque violas, electric guitar and vintage keyboards.

Decoder Ensemble

The Decoder Ensemble is one of the most bold and original representatives of the international New Music scene. With its high-energy sound, the ensemble thrills audiences in prestigious concert halls as well as in clubs such as Berlin’s Berghain. For several years, Decoder hosted the Elbphilharmonie’s »Below Deck« series, in which they presented fascinating performance evenings with a range of very different guest artists.

GURDJIEFF ENSEMBLE

In the early 20th century, Armenian philosopher, mystic, and composer George Gurdjieff traveled widely in the Caucasus, Middle East, Northern Africa, and Asia. He later transformed his experiences of the diverse local musical traditions he encountered into numerous compositions, most of which have only been accessible in piano transcriptions. Led by artistic director Levon Eskenian, the Gurdjieff Ensemble performs these works in new arrangements for traditional instruments, while also highlighting the centuries-old tradition of Armenian ashughs (bards) such as Jivani, Baghdasar Dbir, and Sayat-Nova.