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Clear the stage for the U30 generation! Once again this season, musically talented »Jungs & Deerns« from northern Germany will have the opportunity to present themselves together with the Hamburg Camerata in the exquisite Recitall Hall of the Elbphilharmonie. Youthful energy, fresh motivation and a certain amount of positive excitement make these concerts a particularly intense musical experience.
Grieg compiled the most beautiful pieces of his original incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s drama »Peer Gynt« into two orchestral suites, dispensing with the spoken dialogue and vocals. Morning Mood, the first movement of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, is so frequently used in advertising, film and television that it is one of the best-known classical melodies. »In the Hall of the Mountain King« and »Solvejg’s Song« are also often quoted and are among Grieg’s most famous compositions.
The Sunday Morning Concert brings you wonderful and much-loved compositions, performed by top musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Enjoy the most beautiful music in the morning! You can make your Sunday complete by enjoying a delicious post-concert lunch in restaurant LIER.The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. Attend a concert and have an experience you will never forget. Come and enjoy inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the intimate Recital Hall.
Marcin Świątkiewicz, photo: Leszek Zych In the original version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D major, BWV 1054, the solo instrument was the violin. This work was likely composed in either Köthen or Leipzig, during a period when Bach was already very familiar with the works of Antonio Vivaldi and the three-movement form of the so-called Venetian concerto. The harpsichord version of the work may have been written for the famous concerts at Leipzig’s Café Zimmermann or to provide repertoire for one of his talented sons. Since the harpsichord renaissance, to which Wanda Landowska made a major contribution in the first half of the twentieth century, many new compositions for the instrument have been written. While often turning to the musical past, they sometimes also explore the capacities of contemporary models that are being built and constantly improved. Philip Glass joined the ranks of harpsichord enthusiasts at the beginning of this century, composing a concerto in which elements of Baroque texture and motifs are combined with repetitive structures and transparent harmonies, characteristic of this American minimalist. The main aim of Swedish neo-classicist Dag Wirén’s pleasant and airy Serenade Op. 11 was, as its composer wrote, to put listeners in a cheerful mood. After all, the composer’s credo, which probably also accompanied work on this piece, was ‘I believe in God, Mozart and Carl Nielsen’. Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite, on the other hand, is a remarkably graceful archaisation created to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of the writer known as the father of Danish theatre. It would be hard to find a more beautiful example of a Romantic composer ‘reinventing’ the musical past.
For health reasons, cellist Mischa Maisky has had to cancel his concerts with Martha Argerich on 7, 9, 12 and 14 December in Paris, Rome, Vienna and Budapest. Your tickets will be refunded in the next few days. Spanning almost half a century, the fast friendship and extraordinary artistic complicity between Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky stands as a testament to the remarkable bond between two artists of unique sensitivity and warmth.
Edvard Grieg's popular incidental music, a humorous brass concert featuring hr solo trombonist Norwin Hahn, and a cheerfully exuberant Dvořák symphony guarantee a delightful start to the Quick & Classy concert series season. The hr-Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vassilis Christopoulos present delicate soundscapes from the far north, romantic trombone virtuosity from Denmark, and Dvořák's melodically rich symphony. The concert lasts approximately 70 minutes without intermission.
The Swedish soprano Johanna Wallroth has a flourishing international opera career and has performed several roles at the Vienna State Opera. She had her breakthrough in 2019 when she won the prestigious Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition. Wallroth has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on several occasions, and she also made a guest appearance at a romantic concert in 2020.This time, we begin by hearing her perform songs by Clara and Robert Schumann. After the intermission, we are treated to an exciting new discovery: songs by the French mezzo-soprano, pianist, and composer Pauline Viardot (1821–1910). Viardot was extraordinarily multi-talented; alongside her operatic career, she took piano lessons from a young Franz Liszt and frequently played four-hand piano pieces with her dear friend Frédéric Chopin. Additionally, we hear songs by the Swedish composers Gunnar de Frumerie and Tebogo Monnakgotla. Monnakgotla has set Edith Södergran’s Dagen svalnar to music (world premiere). Magnus Svensson is the artistic director of Konserthuset’s Lied concerts. In addition to concerts in the Nordic region and elsewhere in Europe, he has also performed in Russia and the US. Since 2012, he has also worked at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music with re-publishing older Swedish music.
Nordic Christmas Magic: Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic thrilled audiences and the media with their past concerts at the Elbphilharmonie. Now they return with their successful concert programme »Nutcracker Reimagined« and bring the magic and enchantment of the Christmas season to Hamburg. The programme includes music by Grieg, Pärt, and Tchaikovsky’s world-famous »Nutcracker«, and for the entire concert, they put their music stands aside and play completely from memory – a unique concert experience!
The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!
French singer Sabine Devieilhe is currently on a roll. The Opéra National de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Festival – everyone is clamouring for her clear-as-a-bell soprano. She recently impressed in the Elbphilharmonie as Micaëla in Georges Bizet’s opera »Carmen«. Fortunately, she is not only addicted to opera, but also to song. Together with her long-time piano partner Mathieu Pordoy, she sings her way through a whole cosmos of loving lullabies by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss and Edvard Grieg at the Elbphilharmonie. In the second half of the concert, she juxtaposes Strauss’ »Mädchenblumen« about four female characters with the female perspective of Lili Boulanger’s songs. With works by Germaine Tailleferre and Cécile Chaminade, Devieilhe brings two other French female composers to the stage who otherwise often lag behind the voices of their male colleagues. Of course, the chanson icon Édith Piaf and her »Hymne à l’amour« should not be missing in such a frenzy of love.
We celebrate the anniversary of a format that we, as well as the participating writers and our audience, love: The »Slam Symphony« returns for the 10th time – and the composition it revolves around this season is ideally suited to creative imagination of the word acrobats: Under the baton of Taichi Fukumura, who came second in our Mahler Competition in 2023, we delve into the Nordic world – which is characterised by stories from times long forgotten, poems and ballads as well as mythical figures. Edvard Grieg loved the country of the fjords and often worked obsessively in ivy-covered huts such as his lonely summer house »Troldhaugen«, which translates as »Hill of the Trolls«. The music to »Peer Gynt« is his signature work – based on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic model, which he created with the help of Norwegian fairy tales: a story about a dreamer who uses fantastical tall tales to avoid reality and only realises late in life that only love will save him. Grieg’s setting describes this path of the »Faust of the North« with musical images of wild, romantic fantasticism. We can truly look forward to seeing how our award-winning poetry slammers put these stories into text. The day before, schoolchildren will be able to enjoy this musical programme, presented by Marko Simsa.
The Sunday Morning Concert brings you wonderful and much-loved compositions, performed by top musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Enjoy the most beautiful music in the morning! You can make your Sunday complete by enjoying a delicious post-concert lunch in restaurant LIER.The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. Attend a concert and have an experience you will never forget. Come and enjoy inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the intimate Recital Hall.
El Sistema National Orchestra is a youth orchestra with members ranging in age from 11 to 19 years old, from arts schools and El Sistema programmes throughout Sweden. This autumn concert is traditionally the conclusion of a music camp held in Södertälje and Stockholm. The orchestra has now grown to over 60 members, supported by professional musicians from, among other ensembles, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. “Our vision is to show through the orchestra how far El Sistema in Sweden has come,” says Ron Davis Alvarez, conductor of the El Sistema National Orchestra. El Sistema is a model for choral and orchestral training that was developed in Venezuela. It is based on the vision of music’s capacity to help people grow socially, and to strengthen community as well as children and young people’s self-confidence and sense of identity. In Sweden, El Sistema has been present as an educational programme since 2009 and has continuously grown ever since.
The Concertgebouw’s famous Main Hall is one of the best concert halls in the world, well-known for its exceptional acoustics and special atmosphere. In the Main Hall, you will feel history. Here, Gustav Mahler conducted his own compositions, as did Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky. Sergei Rachmaninoff played his own piano concertos in the Main Hall. This is also where musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Yehudi Menuhin gave legendary performances. Right up to now, the Main Hall offers a stage to the world’s best orchestras and musicians. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Main Hall for yourself!
The Jinghui Guangxuan Symphony Orchestra, named in honour of the late Buddhist Masters Jinghui and Guangxuan, is a Chan symphony orchestra composed entirely of monastic members, both monks and nuns. The Jinghui Guangxuan Symphony Orchestra is historically the first to advocate for practicing Chan through learning and playing music. It is also a pioneer in spreading goodness and love through music. On the one hand, professionalism in musical technique is pursued; on the other hand, great emphasis is placed on the cultivation of virtues to achieve Buddhahood. All members of the Jinghui Guangxuan Symphony Orchestra have begun the musical education from the ground up upon joining the monastery. Following the teachings of Master Shiwule, every monk and nun integrates daily life with the art of music, combining Chan practice with singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments. The philosophy of the Jinghui Guangxuan Symphony Orchestra is that musical performance is Chan practice and also a Buddhist blessing ceremony.
Old meets new and the familiar meets the strange and fairytale-like in the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra’s 2nd Academy Concert, when the propulsive, youthful freshness of the just-turned-seventeen Mozart meets the relatively unknown Romantic sound of Hamburg-born Ferdinand David. Things take an atmospheric turn with Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose music is a resounding reflection of his origins and homeland in England. Just like Edvard Grieg’s »Peer Gynt« from Norway.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has a distinguished history of promoting new American works. In 1986, for example, it premiered John Adams’s fanfare for orchestra »Short Ride in a Fast Machine«, with which the musicians opened their concert in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall under the direction of long-standing chief conductor Manfred Honeck. For Rachmaninov’s mighty »Concerto for Elephants«, whose piano part allegedly has the most notes per second of all the great piano concertos, the Grammy award winning orchestra will be joined by brilliant American pianist Yefim Bronfman. The programme continues in a late Romantic style after the interval with an orchestral suite from Giacomo Puccini’s last opera »Turandot« – even without vocals, great emotions unfold in an arrangement by Manfred Honeck. The work is juxtaposed with Stravinsky’s music to the ballet »The Firebird«, in which Ivan Tsarevich defeats the evil sorcerer Kastschei with the help of a fantastic bird.
The SummerConcerts powered by VriendenLoterij present two months of wonderful concerts, from classical to jazz and from pop music to film scores. Top musicians from the Netherlands and around the world bring you all your favourite classical pieces, as well as tributes to Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, and all your favourite film music.We also present a host of young talent in our summer concerts, including youth orchestras from South Africa and Turkey, and top young classical soloists. After many of the concerts, we offer a meet-and-greet with the artists in an informal setting, or an afterparty with DJ in the Entrance Hall. In one of the world’s finest concert halls, there’s something for everyone this summer at The Concertgebouw!
The Belleville Trio draws inspiration from greats like Django Reinhardt and Stochelo Rosenberg. The trio performs their own interpretations of classics within the ”jazz manouche” style created in France by Django Reinhardt, sometimes referred to as ”Gypsy jazz”. The members of the Belleville Trio met at Södra Latin's gymnasium, and the trio consists of Victor Edlind and Malcolm Lindgren on guitars, and Olof Danfelter on clarinet and saxophone. The Belleville Trio takes us on a journey to the Belleville district of 1940s Paris.Concerts 30 July–3 August / 5-6 August / 10–13 August
The Belleville Trio draws inspiration from greats like Django Reinhardt and Stochelo Rosenberg. The trio performs their own interpretations of classics within the ”jazz manouche” style created in France by Django Reinhardt, sometimes referred to as ”Gypsy jazz”. The members of the Belleville Trio met at Södra Latin's gymnasium, and the trio consists of Victor Edlind and Malcolm Lindgren on guitars, and Olof Danfelter on clarinet and saxophone. The Belleville Trio takes us on a journey to the Belleville district of 1940s Paris.Concerts 30 July–3 August / 5-6 August / 10–13 August
The Belleville Trio draws inspiration from greats like Django Reinhardt and Stochelo Rosenberg. The trio performs their own interpretations of classics within the ”jazz manouche” style created in France by Django Reinhardt, sometimes referred to as ”Gypsy jazz”. The members of the Belleville Trio met at Södra Latin's gymnasium, and the trio consists of Victor Edlind and Malcolm Lindgren on guitars, and Olof Danfelter on clarinet and saxophone. The Belleville Trio takes us on a journey to the Belleville district of 1940s Paris.Concerts 30 July–3 August / 5-6 August / 10–13 August