NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Alan Gilbert

A fortnight before the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra embarks on its big tour of Asia, Alan Gilbert conducts works from the multifaceted tour programme in Hamburg. In the second of two concerts, we hear Brahms’s epochal Fourth Symphony, a work where the Hamburg musicians feel very much at home. »The Fourth represents a culmination in Brahms’s oeuvre, boasting at the same time incredible emotional intensity and rigorous intellect,« as Gilbert himself enthuses.