Vienna Philharmonic / Ingo Metzmacher
Elbphilharmonie Opening Festival
Ingo Metzmacher back in Hamburg
From 1997 to 2005, Ingo Metzmacher was Hamburg’s General Music Director and a very memorable one at that. During his time in Hamburg, Metzmacher’s brilliant collaboration with director Peter Konwitschny was – and still is – highly regarded. Now Metzmacher returns to the podium in Hamburg – his home for many years – with one of the best orchestras in the world: the Vienna Philharmonic.
The programme focuses entirely on classical modernism. The orchestral works of Anton Webern and Shostakovich frame the focal point of the programme: the first symphony by a composer that effected Metzmacher early on in his career, Karl Amadeus Hartmann. He was more than just a great German composer: »He was the bridge between Gustav Mahler and Wolfgang Rihm, between Alban Berg and Hans Werner Henze!«
Performers
Wiener Philharmoniker
Gerhild Romberger alto
conductor Ingo Metzmacher
Programme
Anton Webern
Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Sinfonie Nr. 1 für eine Altstimme und großes Orchester
– Interval –
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Sinfonie Nr. 11 g-Moll op. 103 »Das Jahr 1905«