Classical concerts featuring

Manfred Honeck

Concertgebouworkest & Renée Fleming: Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder

At the end of his long career, Richard Strauss composed the Vier letzte Lieder, a musical embrace in which calm and acceptance prevail. And what better interpreter of such calm after the storm than Renée Fleming, whose warm voice and vocal mastery every listener should be lucky enough to hear live?Over twenty years since his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, Manfred Honeck has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the world’s leading conductors. In addition to Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, the Austrian conductor leads the orchestra in a self-arranged suite of highlights from Puccini’s last opera, Turandot. The music enveloping this cruel tale, sometimes highly lyrical, then exciting and exuberant, is beautifully expressed in an instrumental suite. The concert opens with Franz von Suppé’s Overture 'Dichter und Bauer', and after the interval the orchestra will perform the Scottish composer James MacMillan’s moving Larghetto.

Concertgebouworkest & Renée Fleming: Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder

At the end of his long career, Richard Strauss composed the Vier letzte Lieder, a musical embrace in which calm and acceptance prevail. And what better interpreter of such calm after the storm than Renée Fleming, whose warm voice and vocal mastery every listener should be lucky enough to hear live?Over twenty years since his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, Manfred Honeck has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the world’s leading conductors. In addition to Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, the Austrian conductor leads the orchestra in a self-arranged suite of highlights from Puccini’s last opera, Turandot. The music enveloping this cruel tale, sometimes highly lyrical, then exciting and exuberant, is beautifully expressed in an instrumental suite. The concert opens with Franz von Suppé’s Overture 'Dichter und Bauer', and after the interval the orchestra will perform the Scottish composer James MacMillan’s moving Larghetto.

Concertgebouworkest & Renée Fleming: Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder

At the end of his long career, Richard Strauss composed the Vier letzte Lieder, a musical embrace in which calm and acceptance prevail. And what better interpreter of such calm after the storm than Renée Fleming, whose warm voice and vocal mastery every listener should be lucky enough to hear live?Over twenty years since his Concertgebouw Orchestra debut, Manfred Honeck has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the world’s leading conductors. In addition to Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, the Austrian conductor leads the orchestra in a self-arranged suite of highlights from Puccini’s last opera, Turandot. The music enveloping this cruel tale, sometimes highly lyrical, then exciting and exuberant, is beautifully expressed in an instrumental suite. The concert opens with Franz von Suppé’s Overture 'Dichter und Bauer', and after the interval the orchestra will perform the Scottish composer James MacMillan’s moving Larghetto.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Francesco Piemontesi / Manfred Honeck

Manfred Honeck has become a regular guest conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. This time, he confronts music by two famous composer colleagues and friends, Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. He is joined by Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, who already impressed audiences last season with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the Elbphilharmonie.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Francesco Piemontesi / Manfred Honeck

Manfred Honeck has become a regular guest conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. This time, he confronts music by two famous composer colleagues and friends, Johannes Brahms and Antonín Dvořák. He is joined by Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, who already impressed audiences last season with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the Elbphilharmonie.

Manfred Honeck & Paul Lewis

Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor belongs to one of the programmes that have been consistently rescheduled due to the pandemic; fortunately, it can finally take place as it had originally been planned in the spring of 2020 with Paul Lewis as the soloist. The work is an unabashedly Romantic piece in which the young composer portrays the bright, expansive, and playful colors of his homeland in an almost impressionistic way. As one of the most sophisticated pianists of his generation, Britain’s Paul Lewis will render this musical portrait with consummate skill. In conductor Manfred Honeck’s conception, Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet will be brought to life with a more expressive, or, to be precise, more Dadaist character: rhythmically concise, ecstatically pulsating – a playful new territory for the BRSO musicians. And, indeed, every concert that includes the Eroica is bound to be one of the highlights of an orchestral season.

Manfred Honeck & Paul Lewis

Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor belongs to one of the programmes that have been consistently rescheduled due to the pandemic; fortunately, it can finally take place as it had originally been planned in the spring of 2020 with Paul Lewis as the soloist. The work is an unabashedly Romantic piece in which the young composer portrays the bright, expansive, and playful colors of his homeland in an almost impressionistic way. As one of the most sophisticated pianists of his generation, Britain’s Paul Lewis will render this musical portrait with consummate skill. In conductor Manfred Honeck’s conception, Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet will be brought to life with a more expressive, or, to be precise, more Dadaist character: rhythmically concise, ecstatically pulsating – a playful new territory for the BRSO musicians. And, indeed, every concert that includes the Eroica is bound to be one of the highlights of an orchestral season.

Gewandhausorchester, Manfred Honeck Dirigent

Beethoven believed in music's power to transform individuals and society. His symphonies, including the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh, convey this through themes of life, liberation, nature, religion, time, and rhythm. He felt his Seventh Symphony needed no explanation, although the true meaning remains a mystery. Brahms, similarly, uses irony and understatement to describe his Second Piano Concerto, acknowledging the difficulty of capturing music's essence in words.

Gewandhausorchester, Manfred Honeck Dirigent

Beethoven believed in music's power to transform individuals and society. His symphonies, including the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh, convey this through themes of life, liberation, nature, religion, time, and rhythm. He felt his Seventh Symphony needed no explanation, although the true meaning remains a mystery. Brahms, similarly, uses irony and understatement to describe his Second Piano Concerto, acknowledging the difficulty of capturing music's essence in words.

Casual Concert with Manfred Honeck

A composer buffeted about by a dictatorship, writing music with subtexts – dancing on the edge of a volcano. Nothing is unambiguous in Shostakovich’s Fifth. Manfred Honeck presents the legendary work at a Casual Concert as conductor and moderator: equally exciting for newbies and nerds. And then the perfect contrast in the Lounge afterwards – with a live act and a DJ.

Honeck & Rana

Who’s the bigger star here: the composer or the interpreter? The Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has often entered into the competition with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Though his mentor Nikolai Rubinstein considered it »bad, trivial, vulgar«, for almost 150 years now, it is one of the most widely performed hits whatsoever. No wonder when you consider its ingredients: gripping virtuosity, catchy tunes, and melodies that are worked up into a never-ending rapture.

Honeck, Kavakos · Auerbach, Korngold, Beethoven

Honeck, Kavakos · Auerbach, Korngold, Beethoven