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December 8, 2024

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg / Hansjörg Albrecht

Sun, Dec 8, 2024, 11:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Mitglieder des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters, Catalina Bertucci (Soprano), Anna Lucia Richter (Mezzo-Soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (Tenor), Ludwig Mittelhammer (Bass), Hansjörg Albrecht (Harpsichord), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

»Jauchzet, frohlocket« – for many people, Christmas would be unthinkable without this familiar cry of joy. Bach knows like no other how to capture the words of Luke’s Gospel surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ in musical images. Originally, the various cantatas were spread over different days and were performed on the corresponding public holidays. Today, they are usually grouped together to create a large, coherent Christmas picture. With Johann Sebastian Bach’s incomparable music, this third Advent becomes a musical and aesthetic preparation for Christmas.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

December 7, 2024

Festliches Weihnachtskonzert mit Esther Schweins

Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 20:00

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Esther Schweins (Reading), Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

Festive choral music, atmospheric Christmas sounds, music from different centuries and traditions and Christmas texts, performed by the well-known actress Esther Schweins – it will be contemplative in the Laeiszhalle. Known from the comedy show »RTL Samstag Nacht«, she has since appeared in over 40 film and television productions. Of course, well-known Christmas songs will not be missing.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

November 16, 2024

Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung

Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Staatskapelle Halle, Julia Sophie Wagner (Soprano), Tilman Lichdi (Tenor), Markus Eiche (Bass), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

Haydn had been deeply impressed by the spectacular performances of Handel oratorios when he travelled to England in 1791. Such choirs did not exist in the Italian tradition, to which the Viennese oratorios were also rooted. Why shouldn’t he try something of this kind himself? So he brought back a libretto from England, which had probably first been presented to George Frideric Handel: John Milton’s (1608-1674) epic poem »Paradise Lost«.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

October 19, 2024

Orgelstunde

Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 15:30

Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal (Berlin)

Hansjörg Albrecht (Organ)

Anton Bruckner was considered one of the greatest organists of his time: “Nothing like this had ever been heard before,” César Franck, perhaps the greatest organ composer of his time, recalled of Bruckner's organ playing in Paris in 1869. However, Bruckner excelled above all as an improviser, while he made virtually no appearance as an organ composer or performer. Bruckner's surviving organ pieces, on the other hand, are merely study works from his early period, and there are also some improvisation sketches which give an idea that Bruckner thought of the organ as a symphonic composer in the same way as he did when preparing his large orchestral scores. Organ arrangements of his symphonies can therefore also be a way of approaching the organist Bruckner. With his complete recording of the Bruckner symphonies, Hansjörg Albrecht has now joined the ranks of prominent Bruckner interpreters as an organist! The exciting program is complemented by a “Bruckner Window” by the Munich composer Enjott Schneider.

Info (www.konzerthaus.de)

October 8, 2024

Händel: »Der Messias«

Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 19:00

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Hanna Zumsande (Soprano), Julia Böhme (Alto), Patrick Grahl (Tenor), Konstantin Wolff (Bass), Hansjörg Albrecht (Harpsichord), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

George Frideric Handel, a true European, a superstar of the Baroque era, composed music in abundance – including the »Messiah« with the world-famous »Hallelujah«. At the Laeiszhalle, the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Choir Hamburg, together with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten and renowned soloists, will perform it as a prelude to the new season – as a sing along!

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

October 6, 2024

Hansjörg Albrecht

Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 16:00

Gewandhaus Leipzig, Großer Saal (Leipzig)

Hansjörg Albrecht (Organ)

Info (www.gewandhausorchester.de)

June 8, 2024

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg / Symphoniker Hamburg / Hansjörg Albrecht

Sat, Jun 8, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Neuer Knabenchor Hamburg, Symphoniker Hamburg, Elise van Es (Soprano), Wolfram Lattke (Tenor), Daniel Ochoa (Bass), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

»Could you give your orchestra a little longing for spring when you play it, because I had that with me when I wrote it. I would like the very first trumpet blast to sound as if from on high, like a call to awakening,« wrote Robert Schumann to the conductor Wilhelm Taubert about his First Symphony in B flat major, of which he once proudly proclaimed: »It was born in a fiery hour.« It was written in a true creative frenzy: the 31-year-old composer sketched it in just four days at the end of January 1841 and finished the entire score a good three weeks later, on 20 February. This early spring symphony by Robert Schumann forms the opening of this intoxicating evening, the second half of which features the famous Carmina Burana. Carl Orff became famous overnight in 1937 with the large-scale Carmina Burana. Contemporary harmonies and expressive melodies are combined here with elements of medieval music, powerful rhythms and an artful simplicity. Orff composed this work to Latin, Middle and Old High German songs that were found in 1803 in the Benediktbeuren monastery in Bavaria and are today among the most important literary testimonies of the Middle Ages. In three parts, the songs of Carmina Burana tell of love and courtship, of romance and mysticism, but above all of the cycle of life. To this day, the work is one of the most popular pieces of serious music of the 20th century.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

April 29, 2024

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Festival

Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Mitglieder des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg, Elise van Es (Soprano), Hansjörg Albrecht (Harpsichord), Hansjörg Albrecht (Piano)

»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.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

April 11, 2024

Dresdner Kapellsolisten / Jan Vogler / Hansjörg Albrecht

Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Jan Vogler (Cello), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director), Hansjörg Albrecht (Cembalo)

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.

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

March 12, 2024

Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor / Dresdner Festspielorchester / Hansjörg Albrecht

Tue, Mar 12, 2024, 19:30

Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Dresdner Festspielorchester, Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg, Julia Sophie Wagner (Soprano), Bettina Ranch (Alto), Daniel Johannsen (Evangelist), Andreas Post (Tenor), Matthias Winckhler (Bass-Bariton), Klaus Mertens (Bass), Hansjörg Albrecht (Director)

Bach, Bach, Bach ... Johann Sebastian Bach was a master of pastiche: he loved to reuse his own compositions in new contexts and to copy his pieces in order to demonstrate their flexibility and universality and to give them new expression. With the Lukas-Passion, we hear a work in precisely this pastiche manner. Bach never managed to finish writing this Passion. Now the Bach specialists Lorenz and Christoph Eglhuber, together with the renowned conductor Hansjörg Albrecht, have gone into Bach’s copying and composing room to write this missing Passion from his own compositions. The result is a highly exciting, dramatic work – from pieces written by Bach himself. The Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg brings it to the stage with the finest cast. The soloists are all absolute Bach experts. The Dresdner Festspielorchester is an orchestra made up of members of top-class ensembles of period performance practice. The audience can expect a festive baroque concert in the Passion season!

Info (www.elbphilharmonie.de)