NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / James Gaffigan

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Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 20:00

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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... Read full text

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Musicians

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Vadim Gluzman	Violin
James Gaffigan	Conductor

Program

Introduction to »Khovanshchina«	Modest Mussorgski
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 129	Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony in F minor, Hob. I:49 »La passione«	Joseph Haydn
Overture from »Egmont«, Op. 84	Ludwig van Beethoven

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