Haydn: The Creation / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra – Opening Concert Hamburg International Music Festival
Programme highlights to close the season: in this edition of the four-week festival, the great Hamburg orchestras and star guests explore the theme of »nature«.
»It’s simply wonderful here – balsam for body and soul alike!« Gustav Mahler once wrote from the little house in Toblach in South Tyrol he often used as a summer retreat to concentrate on composing. He loved the idyllic Alpine landscape, which inspired some of his best musical ideas. This principle actually applied to many composers, who took inspiration from rivers and the four seasons, from birdsong and the weather – or simply sought peace and tranquillity in forests and mountains where they could work undisturbed. »Nature« is the motto of the 6th Hamburg International Music Festival, where the major Hamburg-based orchestras and top-class guests once again bring the concert season to a close with a whole number of programme highlights.
The performances of the light installation »Breaking Waves« by the Dutch artist duo DRIFT planned for 29 and 30 April and 1 May have to be cancelled for security reasons. At the premiere the day before, the art performance was massively disrupted by alien high-speed drones. Numerous drones crashed in the process:Find out more
The four-week festival aims not only to present a selection of the finest nature compositions in the repertoire, but also to tap into current public debates on climate and the environment, the prevalent issues of our time.
A good reason, therefore, to behold and listen to the beauty of nature around us. The festival’s opening concert with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under the baton of Alan Gilbert takes a look at the big picture with a performance of Haydn’s »The Creation«, one of the most impressive of all musical portrayals of nature. Obviously any selection of music about nature has to include Richard Strauss’s imposing »Alpine Symphony«, with which the Gewandhaus Orchestra makes the walls in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall shake.
Among the other festival highlights are a concert performance of Weber’s »Der Freischütz« with the Freiburger Barockorchester, and a complete Sibelius cycle.
Supported by the Stiftung Elbphilharmonie and the Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
Haydn: The Creation / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra – Opening Concert Hamburg International Music Festival
A spectacular light installation at the Elbphilharmonie
Haydn: The Creation / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra – Hamburg International Music Festival
CANCELLED: Studio Drift »Breaking Waves«
A spectacular light installation at the Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano
Mahler: Third Symphony – Hamburg International Music Festival
CANCELLED: Studio Drift »Breaking Waves«
A spectacular light installation at the Elbphilharmonie
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra / Luigi Gaggero
Fundraising concert for Ukrainehilfe Hamburg
CANCELLED: Studio Drift »Breaking Waves«
A spectacular light installation at the Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano
Mahler: Third Symphony – Hamburg International Music Festival
Julia Fischer / Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Mozart / Haydn / Tschaikowsky – Hamburg International Music Festival
Weber: Der Freischütz / René Jacobs
Freiburger Barockorchester – Hamburg International Music Festival
Song Recital: Florian Boesch / Malcolm Martineau
Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen – Hamburg International Music Festival
Dvořák: Rusalka / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Soloists – Hamburg International Music Festival
Thomas Ospital / Organ Concert
Hamburg International Music Festival
Family concert for ages 8+ – Hamburg International Music Festival
Dvořák: Rusalka / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Soloists – Hamburg International Music Festival
Philharmonia Orchestra / Pekka Kuusisto / Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Dessner: Violin Concerto / Beethoven: Pastorale – Hamburg International Music Festival
hr-Sinfonieorchester / Pierre-Laurent Aimard / Brad Lubman
Crumb / Read Thomas / Messiaen – Hamburg International Music Festival
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rana / Nézet-Séguin
Abrahamsen / Clara Schumann / Brahms – Hamburg International Music Festival
Focus Jazz Trumpet – Hamburg International Music Festival
The Lichtenberg Figures – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Bertrand Chamayou / Pablo Heras-Casado
Britten / Falla / Schumann – Hamburg International Music Festival
Joey Calderazzo & John Patitucci
Jazz Piano (substitute date) – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Bertrand Chamayou / Pablo Heras-Casado
Britten / Falla / Schumann – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Twinkle Concert M / Das Bäumlein
Children’s Concert: Ages 3–5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Munich Philharmonic / Daniele Gatti
Mozart / Shostakovich – Hamburg International Music Festival / Please note the change of artist and programme
Twinkle Concert M / Das Bäumlein
Children’s Concert: Ages 3–5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Inuksuit / Open-Air Percussion-Performance
Hamburg International Music Festival
Jason Rebello / Symphoniker Hamburg / Clark Rundell
Debussy / Simcock – Please note the change of artist and programme
Song Recital: Ian Bostridge / Sir Antonio Pappano
Schubert: Winterreise – Hamburg International Music Festival
Munich Philharmonic / Renaud Capuçon / Daniele Gatti
Bruch / Bruckner’s Ninth – Hamburg International Music Festival / Please note the change of artist and programme
Chamber Concert and Talk
Patricia Kopatchinskaja / Mahler Chamber Orchestra
»Les Adieux – a scenic concert« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival / ePhil (substitute date)
»Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Anne-Sophie Mutter / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko
Bernstein / Previn / Rachmaninov – Hamburg International Music Festival
Filarmonica della Scala / Ray Chen / Riccardo Chailly
Mendelssohn / Mahler – Hamburg International Music Festival
Liebman / Brecker / Copland Quintet
Hamburg International Music Festival
Die Rache der Berge / Blind Husbands
Silent Film with Live Music – Hamburg International Music Festival
Symphoniker Hamburg / Cyrille Dubois / Sylvain Cambreling
Schmitt / Britten / Debussy – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Emanuel Ax / Alan Gilbert
Neikrug / Brahms – Hamburg International Music Festival
Munich Philharmonic / Rachel Willis-Sørensen / Andris Nelsons
Hamburg International Music Festival / Please note the change of artist and programme
Munich Philharmonic / Rachel Willis-Sørensen / Andris Nelsons
Hamburg International Music Festival / Please note the change of artist and programme
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Emanuel Ax / Alan Gilbert
Neikrug / Brahms – Hamburg International Music Festival
HAPPY END, RENATURED – Hamburg International Music Festival
Budapest Festival Orchestra / Alexandre Kantorow / Iván Fischer
Liszt: Piano Concerto / Mahler: Symphony No. 1 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Orchestre de Paris / Igor Levit / Manfred Honeck
Ravel / Gershwin / Bartók – Hamburg International Music Festival
Le Poème Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre
»Lully & Molière« / Das Alte Werk – Hamburg International Music Festival
Song Recital: Asmik Grigorian / Lukas Geniušas
Rachmaninov – Hamburg International Music Festival
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir András Schiff
Beethoven & Haydn – Hamburg International Music Festival
Christina Landshamer / Ian Bostridge / Florian Boesch / Nicolas Altstaedt / Orchestra of the 18th Century
Elisabeth Leonskaja / The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Beethoven – Hamburg International Music Festival
Ensemble Modern / Ingo Metzmacher
Mark Andre: rwh 1−4 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Children’s Concert: Ages 8+ – Hamburg International Music Festival
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Rudolf Buchbinder / Andris Nelsons
Richard Strauss III – Hamburg International Music Festival / Please note the change of artist
Hamburg International Music Festival
Children’s Concert: Ages 8+ – Hamburg International Music Festival
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons
Richard Strauss IV – Hamburg International Music Festival
»Earth, Air, Water, Fire« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Oslo Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 6 & 7 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Oslo Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Oslo Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
»Elbphilharmonie+« – Hamburg International Music Festival
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