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Musikgymnasium C. Ph. E. Bach

A concert program featuring works by Emmanuel Séjourné (Marimba Concerto), Gordon Jacob (Bassoon Concerto), C.P.E. Bach (Cello Concerto in A major and Flute Concerto in D minor), Alfred Schnittke (Concerto Grosso No. 3), Giovanni Bottesini (Capriccio di Bravura for Double Bass), and Lars-Erik Larsson (Trombone Concertino).

Absolventenkonzert des Musikgymnasiums C. Ph. E. Bach

Transverse flute and Fortepiano

Cornelia Grohmann, Axel von Huene, Albrecht Winter & Michael Schönheit

Albrecht Mayer Berliner Barock Solisten

Three generations of the Bach family are featured in a concert with Albrecht Mayer and the Berliner Barock Solisten. Festive Baroque music in historically informed performance practice meets the warm sound of Mayer's oboe. The program spans from Johann Sebastian Bach's great-uncle, Johann Christoph, to his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann, framed by works of Johann Sebastian himself.

Piano Alexander Lonquich plays Rihm, C. P. E. Bach, Schumann and Bruckner

Alexander Lonquich is famous not only for his nuanced sound, but also for his original programming. For this programme, he has chosen a wide range of colourful discoveries that convey maximum expressivity in short movements. Alongside Bruckner’s delicate Erinnerung, there are two ebullient piano sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and these are offset by alternatingly powerful and melancholic works by composer in residence Wolfgang Rihm, who died in July. Little-known Novellettes by Robert Schumann, a master of the expressive piano miniature, also punctuate the evening.

Mu­se­ums­kon­zert III

Since 2010, ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing in the Bode Museum. The concerts, lasting just over an hour, take place in the Gobelin Hall and feature music from past centuries. Visitors can combine the concerts with other museum activities, such as an exhibition visit or a meal at the museum café.

Klavierabend mit Anna Khomichko

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Andreas Staier

The innately humanistic sound ideal of Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach meets the youthful, romantic gesture of Felix Mendelssohn: the 4th Academy Concert continues the series of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos that began with the 1st Academy Concert. It is music so popular and widely admired that it was launched into space on a data disk aboard the »Voyager 2« space probe in 1977. Now it is back in Hamburg. His Symphony No. 6, nicknamed the »Hamburg Symphony« is a clear sign that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has no reason to be disconcerted by any overbearing legacy of his famous father.

FEL!X URBAN. Musica Gloria

Musica Gloria is a young ensemble that aims to express the colorful, lively, and entertaining side of early music. Supported by Kuratorium KölnMusik e.V., Kunststiftung NRW, and the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media.

FEL!X URBAN. Musica Gloria

Musica Gloria is a young ensemble that aims to express the colorful, lively, and entertaining side of early music. Supported by Kuratorium KölnMusik e.V., Kunststiftung NRW, and the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth and Media.

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.

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.

Igor Levit / Berliner Barock Solisten

When Igor Levit takes his seat at the keyboard, one thing is for sure: you’ll hear the pieces on the programme as never before. The German-Russian pianist makes his very own mark, often as unexpected as it is brilliant, on every work he plays, whisking even veteran repertoire warhorses into the here and now. In this concert Levit is accompanied by the Berliner Barock Solisten in music by two composers who can be described without exaggeration as pinnacles of music history: Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The most famous of the Bach sons made a no less illustrious career for himself than his father, and was admired by fellow composers like Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. In this cleverly thought-out programme, Levit and the Berlin ensemble create a father-son dialogue along entirely modern lines.

Dresdner Kapellsolisten / Jan Vogler / Hansjörg Albrecht

Like father, like sons: Johann Sebastian Bach was not the only composer in his family, his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian were also highly successful. Star cellist Jan Vogler and the renowned Dresdner Kapellsolisten dedicate themselves to their music in the grand opening concert of the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Fest.

Magdalena Hoffmann & Henrik Wiese : Chamber orchestra