Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra

Start the New Year with reflection: at this New Year’s Eve concert, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano, along with chamber choir and soloists, perform in a large formation. From Bach to the contemporary Hosokawa, the programme includes music spanning three centuries. All the selected works share a theme that inspires contemplation: fragility and vulnerability in music that appears perfect and beautiful on the surface. The evening comes to a classical close with Mozart, whose Sparrow Mass has the festive quality of a Missa solemnis but is as short as a Missa brevis – sending off the audience into the night of New Year’s Eve in a jovial mood.