Peter Sloterdijk & Florian Boesch in Conversation

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!

In St. Florian Monastery with Herbert Blomstedt

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 Rundel

Peter Rundel

Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus celebrates his 85th birthday in 2024! With his major and very successful tour in 2023, the »eternally young« and exceptional artist already said goodbye to touring life in the spring of 2023. But the passion for music, stage air and closeness to the audience remains. A thoroughbred musician like Peter Kraus lives and loves and needs the stage. And so the superstar of the wild 50s and 60s is »gifting« himself and all his fans a series of concerts in selected concert halls for this special anniversary. Peter Kraus’s »Rockin’ 85!« promises to be a rousing »limited edition« in the truest sense of the tour title!