Orchester ’91 / Emanuel Dantscher

Hannu Lintu & Emanuel Ax

The highly regarded Polish-American pianist Emanuel Ax is returning to the BRSO. For more than five decades he has thrilled music-lovers all over the world both with his playing and his modest, warm-hearted demeanour. The works of Frédéric Chopin have been a mainstay of his career, and he has again deepened his grasp of this music during the covid lockdown. The nobility and brilliance of his tone provide the perfect prerequisites for the F-minor Concerto, written when Chopin was 19 years old. After the intermission, Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu will conduct the 2nd Symphony by Jean Sibelius.

Hannu Lintu & Emanuel Ax

The highly regarded Polish-American pianist Emanuel Ax is returning to the BRSO. For more than five decades he has thrilled music-lovers all over the world both with his playing and his modest, warm-hearted demeanour. The works of Frédéric Chopin have been a mainstay of his career, and he has again deepened his grasp of this music during the covid lockdown. The nobility and brilliance of his tone provide the perfect prerequisites for the F-minor Concerto, written when Chopin was 19 years old. After the intermission, Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu will conduct the 2nd Symphony by Jean Sibelius.

Moritzburg Festival Orchester

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, a highlight of his work, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, nicknamed "Fate", will be performed by Yefim Bronfman and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. This concert promises pure Romanticism.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Newly appointed Düsseldorf music director's "Rhenish" Symphony, possibly inspired by Cologne Cathedral, exudes the motivational boost of his move to the Rhine. Paavo Järvi conducts this energetic piece, following Arvo Pärt's soundscapes. Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson returns as soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto, after a global tour with Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Haydn-Orchester Hamburg

Playing good music at a high level – that is the goal that the Haydn Orchestra Hamburg has set itself. And it is not without pride that it is one of the leading non-professional orchestras in northern Germany. The Haydn Orchestra Hamburg was founded in 1977 as a chamber orchestra. In the early years, the name was the programme: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Sebastian Bach were the composers of the orchestra’s early phase. Today, the orchestra consists of 90 musicians with a full woodwind and brass section. It is therefore only natural that the great symphonies and concertos of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as the works of Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven and George Gershwin, are now increasingly played.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Groß, größer, Mahler! Mit Chor, Solosängerinnen und einem Orchester, das sechs Hörner und Trompeten, eine Orgel und einen Haufen Schlagwerk verlangt, sprengt Mahlers zweite Sinfonie alles bisher Dagewesene. Und bis heute ist ihre Aufführung stets ein Erlebnis!Vor allem, wenn Mahler-Spezialist Paavo Järvi am Pult seines exzellenten Tonhalle-Orchesters Zürich steht und das Meer der Musikerinnnen und Musiker auf und die musizierendend Massen auf der Bühne sicher durch die emotionalen Extreme der Sinfonie leitet. Auf »größte Not« folgt glückselige Schwerelosigkeit: »Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen, werde ich entschweben! Sterben werd’ ich, um zu leben!«, singt der Chor und lässt das Licht der Hoffnung in strahlend warmen Farben scheinen. Nie wurde diese Empfindung ergreifender in Musik gesetzt.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Festival

»I feel air from other planets« – so begins a poem by Stefan George, the poet who once stood for such an admired departure into modernity that a composer like Arnold Schönberg set some of his poems to music early on. Schönberg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach were both avant-gardists in the best sense of the word. Both shared an emotional, technical, but also idealistic connection to the traditions from which they came. And both sought the development of art and artistic expression as a reflection of their time, developing a new musical language in the process. Schönberg (born in 1874) turned towards expressionism and later towards atonality, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (born in 1714) towards an enlightened understanding of music and as a pioneer and trailblazer for the music of Viennese Classicism. And as Arnold Schönberg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach are both celebrating milestone birthdays this year, the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Choir Hamburg congratulates them with this concert.

Beethovens Orchester

Beethoven's Second Symphony, composed during a time of personal despair and increasing deafness, is surprisingly cheerful and exuberant. This concert, exclusively for students in grades 3-6, explores the orchestra and its instruments in Beethoven's time, examining how he used them to create timeless music. The concert lasts approximately 60 minutes without intermission. Educational materials will be available.