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Konzerteinführung mit Ann-Katrin Zimmermann um 18.45 Uhr - Schumann-Eck
Grosse Concerte Gewandhausorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado Dirigent.
For many years now, Lunchtime Concerts have been held in the Main Hall and the Recital Hall. The concerts range from public rehearsals by the Concertgebouworkest, to chamber music performances by young up-and-coming artists.For Lunchtime Concerts you will require a free ticket, which you can buy online. Doors to the concert hall open about 30 minutes before the Lunchtime Concert starts.We offer a broad range of music: the majority of concerts include classical music, but you can sometimes hear more modern repertoire. The concert programme is announced one week in advance on our website. The concerts last thirty minutes and are free of charge. Visitors are advised that these concerts are suitable for children from six years old.
The great opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, who opens this concert evening, called his only string quartet »a gimmick«. Legend has it that he composed his quartet purely as a pastime, as rehearsals for performances of his »Aida« in Naples had come to a standstill. As so often, Verdi was understating the case. The French-Cypriot pianist Cyprien Katsaris continues the gimmick with a spontaneous improvisation on Verdi’s operatic themes. In the rest of the programme, Katsaris plays romances, songs and fantasies by Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt. Cyprien Katsaris is a piano virtuoso with a very special affinity for Liszt and has contributed greatly to a new view of Liszt’s piano works throughout his life. In 2023, he received the Franz Liszt Prize of Honour, awarded by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Neue Liszt Stiftung.
In this concert, clarinettist David Orlowsky is both soloist and composer. Together with ensemble reflektor, he premieres his own clarinet concerto »Shadow Dancer«, which was inspired by a quote from the famous psychiatrist C. G. Jung: »Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.«
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.
On this evening, Hamburg mezzo-soprano Nora Kazemieh juggles a wide variety of styles with feather-light ease. Whether Mozart, Debussy, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Bolcom or Weill: her warm, shimmering timbre combines with the virtuosity of the award-winning Romanian pianist Cosmin Boeru to create a moving listening experience.
With “Herz” and MendelssohnA chamber music evening, performed by members of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, is dedicated to three female composers. Including Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s sister, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, the actual inventor of the “Songs without Words”. Grażyna Bacewicz was considered a musical luminary of the mid-20th century in Poland. And Maria Herz (1878-1950)? Is currently being rediscovered, for example by us! Ballrooms have had a great time in Berlin. Without the plush dance halls, the Golden Twenties would probably not have become the cult brand that it is today, and which even had an impact on the founding years of radio. The RSB opens up two of Berlin’s lovingly maintained ballrooms for selected chamber concerts: the Ballhaus Wedding and the Ballhaus Neukölln, today’s “Heimathafen”.Both mark stations on an imaginary line between the orchestra’s two radio houses during its 100-year history: the Haus des Rundfunks in Charlottenburg and the Funkhaus Nalepastraße in Oberschöneweide.
An evening of chamber music, performed by members of the members of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, is dedicated to two female composers. female composers. Grażyna Bacewicz was regarded as a musical luminary in Poland of the mid-20th century. And Maria Herz (1878-1950)? Is currently being rediscovered, for example by us!The concert in Studio 14 will take place without an intermission.
With “Herz” and Mendelssohn An evening of chamber music, performed by members of the members of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, is dedicated to three female composers. female composers. Including the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn, the actual inventor of the “Songs without words”. Grażyna Bacewicz was regarded as a musical luminary in Poland of the mid-20th century. And Maria Herz (1878-1950)? Is currently being rediscovered, for example by us!
The Kammersinfonie Hamburg is playing a benefit concert on the eve of International Women’s Day in aid of organisations in Hamburg that look after women and girls who suffer or have suffered from physical and psychological violence and discrimination. The works performed are intended to highlight examples of female composers who have not had it easy in their lives as composers. In addition, voices will be heard that illustrate the discriminatory attitude of male composer colleagues.
The BRSO welcomes Maxim Emelyanychev, one of the most fascinating talents of the young generation of conductors, to its podium for the first time. Trained by the legendary Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Emelyanychev began his conducting career in his native Russia, while at the same time attracting attention as an extraordinary pianist – with CD recordings of Mozart sonatas, for example, or playing the fortepiano in Teodor Currentzis’ Da Ponte cycle. Since 2013 he has led the highly successful Italian Baroque ensemble Il pomo d’oro, and since 2019 he has also led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has made highly acclaimed recordings with both ensembles. For his BRSO debut, Emelyanychev has put together an attractive Romantic program in which one can expect a fresh approach inspired by the music of the Classical and Baroque periods. This is also in line with violinist Isabelle Faust’s approach – especially for the Brahms concerto, in which she pursues the ideal of clarity, transparency and lightness.
The BRSO welcomes Maxim Emelyanychev, one of the most fascinating talents of the young generation of conductors, to its podium for the first time. Trained by the legendary Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Emelyanychev began his conducting career in his native Russia, while at the same time attracting attention as an extraordinary pianist – with CD recordings of Mozart sonatas, for example, or playing the fortepiano in Teodor Currentzis’ Da Ponte cycle. Since 2013 he has led the highly successful Italian Baroque ensemble Il pomo d’oro, and since 2019 he has also led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He has made highly acclaimed recordings with both ensembles. For his BRSO debut, Emelyanychev has put together an attractive Romantic program in which one can expect a fresh approach inspired by the music of the Classical and Baroque periods. This is also in line with violinist Isabelle Faust’s approach – especially for the Brahms concerto, in which she pursues the ideal of clarity, transparency and lightness.