First a cold drink by the Elbe, then a concert in the Grand Hall: the Elbphilharmonie Summer returns from 15–30 August, featuring world-class orchestras performing classics and new discoveries. There’s also a colourful mix of pop, jazz and world music.
Mahan Esfahani shows that the harpsichord can stand firmly in the here and now with all four legs. The renowned Iranian-American harpsichordist performs exclusively works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Conductor Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra Utopia present Gustav Mahler’s powerful First Symphony and Alban Berg’s moving Violin Concerto, performed by Vilde Frang. Two works spanning emotional intensity and refined sound.
With Götterdämmerung, the project of a historically informed »Ring« reaches its climax: Kent Nagano and Concerto Köln present the grand finale – 150 years after its premiere, in keeping with the Music Festival motto »End«.
Still Woodstock’s roar in their ears: In 1969 Miles Davis recorded »Bitches Brew« with Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul & Co. Jazz drummer Bobby Previte reignites this high-energy jazz-rock fusion live with local musicians.
Haydn’s deeply moving »The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross«, played by Ensemble Resonanz, is paired with excerpts from »Arbeit und Struktur« by best-selling author Wolfgang Herrndorf (»Tschick«), read by actress Meret Becker.
The B'Rock Orchestra, the bad boys of the early music scene, transform the cult film »La Grande Bouffe« into an unconventional musical theatre piece: a staged banquet combining baroque, pop and electronic music – bitterly angry and highly topical.
As part of the International Music Festival, the RIAS Chamber Choir from Berlin and the Ensemble Resonanz explore themes of farewell and transience through music from England by Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others.
Giuseppe Gibboni and Arsenii Moon perform sonatas by Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev – romantic warmth meets rhythmic bite and virtuosic fire in an immediate chamber music setting.
Johann Sebastian Bach did not only compose sacred masterpieces: he also wrote magnificent secular music for the court, festive occasions and the university. Two vivid examples of this form the focus of this concert with the CPE.Bach.Chor.Hamburg.
Nils Wülker, Linda May Han Oh, Greg Hutchinson and Omer Klein: an international star line-up takes to the stage. The programme features the trumpeter's new album, »Zuversicht«. Music with lots of positive energy that is immediately contagious.
The programme presented by these two young talents on violin and piano ranges from virtuosic to lyrically dreamy. Before the concert with works by W.A. Mozart and César Franck the afternoon begins with coffee, tea and cake in the beautiful Brahms Foyer.
Hans Werner Henze, born in 1926, always wanted his music to resonate with people – and thus found his way between tradition and the avant-garde.
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