Robert Glasper

Robert Glasper

Heart and soul, passion, an artistic repertoire that is unrivalled and one of the most important voices for contemporary Afro culture – we are talking about none other than Robert Glasper. The American jazz pianist, composer and producer Robert Glasper is an absolutely exceptional artist whose political commitment has made him heard far beyond the borders of the music world. The Grammy winner returns to Germany for two exclusive shows in November.

Robert Henke

Robert Henke comes to Hamburg with his award-winning production »CBM 8032 AV«. Behind the cryptic title is one of the first home computers from Commodore, who revolutionised the world 40 years ago. With a whole series of these bedrocks, Henke devises an audio-visual concert experience, which, according to the artist, circles around the »ambivalence between contemporary aesthetics and the use of outdated, limited technology«. Since the 1990s, Henke has been firmly rooted on the electronic music scene with his project Monolake and has, amongst other things, co-developed the ground-breaking music software Ableton. For several years, the passionate musician, composer and artist has also been interested in visual art and combines his sound experiments with laser and LED shows. And he does so successfully: Henke has already performed internationally at the Tate Museum in London, MoMa PS1 in New York and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Robert Schumann: Genoveva

Robert Schumanns einzige Oper zählt zu den eigenwilligsten und bedeutendsten Musikdramen der Romantik. Das Originalklang-Ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie und sein Gründer Jérémie Rhorer legen nun die verblüffende Modernität dieses Meisterwerks offen.Gemeinsam mit ausgewählten Solistinnen und Solisten erzählen der kundige Dirigent und sein Spezial-Ensemble die Geschichte von »Genoveva«: Die Gattin des Pfalzgrafen Siegfried wird von dessen Gefolgsmann, der sie liebt, fälschlicherweise der Untreue geziehen. Schumanns Oper, die ein glückliches Ende findet, lebt von einer unerhörten inneren Spannung. Jeder ihrer konzentrierten vier Akte ist bezwingend durchkomponiert, durchwirkt von bedeutungsvoll schillernden Leitmotiven – raffinierter mitunter als Wagner!

Jordi Savall / Robert Schumann

Jordi Savall conducts one of Schumann’s major works, which was a great success at its premiere in 1843: rarely in the romantic composer’s oeuvre does the voice resound with such tenderness and fervour as in as in Paradise and the Peri.

Robert Levin in Residence: Mozart Requiem

Hear the transcendent Mozart Requiem, completed by Robert Levin and featuring four outstanding Guildhall singers as soloists.

Guest performance Works by Johann Strauß jr., Robert Stolz and other composers ‒ from Waltzes to Polkas

NotenTexte: Ach, du mein Alles! Das Leben von Robert und Clara Schumann. Ein musikalisch-literarischer Abend

Guest performance Works by Johann Strauß jr., Robert Stolz and other composers ‒ from Waltzes to Polkas

Bill Laurance & Michael League

You can hardly talk about Michael League and Bill Laurance without mentioning Snarky Puppy. American bassist and multi-instrumentalist Michael League founded the globally acclaimed, four-time Grammy award-winning collective almost 20 years ago. And British pianist and keyboardist Bill Laurance has been part of this global adventure for almost as long. The fact that League and Laurance are presenting their first joint duo album with »Where you wish you were« seems both surprising and logical.

Christian Sands Quartet

At the age of just 34, the American pianist Christian Sands can already look back on a quite picture-perfect career: he took up the piano at aged four, wrote his first compositions at five, and his first album followed at twelve. He went on to study with jazz ambassador Billy Taylor, played with bassist Christian McBride and has since recorded eight albums. Now Sands is bringing his quartet to the Elbphilharmonie. The New Yorker relies in his playing on a powerful swinging tempo combined with sophisticated technical finesse. His reputation as a superb live entertainer precedes him. Besides his own compositions, Sands also takes a look far back into jazz history – with Jonathon Muir-Cotton on bass, Max Light on guitar and his brother Ryan Sands on drums. He incorporates and transforms old and not-so-old heroes of piano playing like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau with incredible ease. The »Süddeutsche Zeitung« newspaper once coined this »entrümpelte Klassiker« (»decluttered classics«).