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December 25, 2024

Symphoniker Hamburg / Adrian Iliescu

Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 18:00

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Symphoniker Hamburg, Adrian Iliescu (Violin), Adrian Iliescu (Director)

Christmas concert! At the Laeiszhalle! Where else? Brandenburg an der Havel is really beautifully situated, but – for understandable reasons – cannot boast a comparable concert hall. That’s why the Symphoniker Hamburg is bringing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 to Hamburg, with a brilliant ensemble led by Adrian Iliescu on the violin. Bach is known to have travelled to Hamburg in 1720 – a short trip around the world for the composer from Köthen, but also a very painful one: his first wife Maria Barbara had died suddenly just a few weeks earlier while he was in Carlsbad. The first of Bach’s »Concerts avec plusieurs instruments« from March 1721 may therefore be particularly poignant for the audience.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

December 12, 2024

Symphoniker Hamburg / Adrian Iliescu / Nil Venditti

Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Symphoniker Hamburg, Adrian Iliescu (Violin), Nil Venditti (Conductor)

The Symphoniker Hamburg’s second VielHarmonie concert will live up to its name, as there will be plenty of harmony to discover. When the composer Caroline Shaw was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, she was not only one of only a few women, but also the youngest ever winner at the age of just 30. She originally wrote her »Entr’acte« for quartet as a witty reaction to hearing Haydn’s last completed quartet, but in 2014 she adapted the work for string orchestra in the version heard in this concert. William Walton’s Violin Concerto was premiered in December 1939 by Jascha Heifetz, who had commissioned the work and to whom it is dedicated. The English composer then revised it in 1944. The concerto opens with the slowest movement, the first theme of which is labelled »sognando« (dreaming). In the second movement, presto, a tarantella tells of an experience Walton had while composing in 1938, when he was actually bitten by a tarantula in Ravello, Italy. He himself smilingly calls this passage »rather gaga, I can say, and of dubious decency«. The rondo finale finally brings romantic-expressive expressiveness and brilliant virtuosity to a climax.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

June 27, 2024

Martha Argerich / Gil Shaham / Edgar Moreau / Albrecht Mayer

Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 20:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Symphoniker Hamburg, Musiker:innen des Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Albrecht Mayer (Oboe), Stefan Schweigert (Bassoon), Adrian Iliescu (Violin), Gil Shaham (Violin), Edgar Moreau (Cello), Christoph Heesch (Cello), David Kadouch (Piano), Akane Sakai (Piano), Martha Argerich (Piano), Sylvain Cambreling (Conductor)

The Martha Argerich Festival, which has been organised by the Symphoniker Hamburg since 2018, is presenting itself in a slightly different form this year. In recent years, the Laeiszhalle has been the artistic home of the festival, which never ceases to amaze, but in the summer of 2024, the orchestra will head out into the city and perform in other venues too. Together with Martha Argerich, the Symponiker Hamburg are happy to take up this impulse in terms of content – all artistic encounters in the special 2024 festival edition will breathe the spirit of a voyage of discovery.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

Symphoniker Hamburg / Adrian Iliescu

Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 18:00

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Christmas concert! At the Laeiszhalle! Where else? Brandenburg an der Havel is really beautifully situated, but – for understandable reasons – cannot boast a comparable concert hall. That’s why the Symphoniker Hamburg is bringing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 to Hamburg, with a brilliant ensemble led by Adrian Iliescu on the violin. Bach is known to have travelled to Hamburg in 1720 – a short trip around the world for the composer from Köthen, but also a very painful one: his first wife Maria Barbara had died suddenly just a few weeks earlier while he was in Carlsbad. The first of Bach’s »Concerts avec plusieurs instruments« from March 1721 may therefore be particularly poignant for the audience.

Symphoniker Hamburg / Adrian Iliescu / Nil Venditti

Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

The Symphoniker Hamburg’s second VielHarmonie concert will live up to its name, as there will be plenty of harmony to discover. When the composer Caroline Shaw was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, she was not only one of only a few women, but also the youngest ever winner at the age of just 30. She originally wrote her »Entr’acte« for quartet as a witty reaction to hearing Haydn’s last completed quartet, but in 2014 she adapted the work for string orchestra in the version heard in this concert. William Walton’s Violin Concerto was premiered in December 1939 by Jascha Heifetz, who had commissioned the work and to whom it is dedicated. The English composer then revised it in 1944. The concerto opens with the slowest movement, the first theme of which is labelled »sognando« (dreaming). In the second movement, presto, a tarantella tells of an experience Walton had while composing in 1938, when he was actually bitten by a tarantula in Ravello, Italy. He himself smilingly calls this passage »rather gaga, I can say, and of dubious decency«. The rondo finale finally brings romantic-expressive expressiveness and brilliant virtuosity to a climax.

Martha Argerich / Gil Shaham / Edgar Moreau / Albrecht Mayer

Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 20:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

The Martha Argerich Festival, which has been organised by the Symphoniker Hamburg since 2018, is presenting itself in a slightly different form this year. In recent years, the Laeiszhalle has been the artistic home of the festival, which never ceases to amaze, but in the summer of 2024, the orchestra will head out into the city and perform in other venues too. Together with Martha Argerich, the Symponiker Hamburg are happy to take up this impulse in terms of content – all artistic encounters in the special 2024 festival edition will breathe the spirit of a voyage of discovery.