Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Yuja Wang

Date & Time

Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 20:00

Venue

World leaders have joined forces here: exceptional pianist Yuja Wang and the acclaimed Mahler Chamber Orchestra have been »Artistic Partners« since early 2024 and as such already had their much-celebrated Elbphilharmonie prelude – »it was the pure, unrestrained, scintillating joy of playing« wrote the Hamburger Abendblatt. For their second joint concert on the Elbe, the orchestra and pianist have chosen a light-hearted programme, which celebrates the merging of classical music and jazz at the start of the 20th century with... Read full text

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Musicians

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Yuja Wang	Piano, Director

Program

Concerto in E-flat major »Dumbarton Oaks«	Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major	Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (orchestral version)	Maurice Ravel
Jazz Suite for Piano and Orchestra	Alexander Tsfasman

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