Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Kent Nagano
Hamburg International Music Festival
Programme highlights to close the season: in this edition of the five-week festival, the great Hamburg orchestras and star guests explore the theme of »love«.
After exploring themes such as utopia, faith, hope and nature in previous editions, the 2023 Hamburg International Music Festival is all about love. Guests will include stars such as Cecilia Bartoli, Barbara Hannigan and Yuja Wang, Jonas Kaufmann, Lang Lang and Krystian Zimerman. Sir John Eliot Gardiner is celebrating his 80th birthday with a Brahms cycle, while the Vienna Philharmonic will be performing under the acclaimed conductor Jakub Hrůša. The Music Festival has also traditionally provided a platform for special productions – from Gershwin’s »Porgy & Bess« and a slightly different version of Schubert’s »Die schöne Müllerin« to a music-theatre manifesto by the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov. The festival will have a special focus on Alfred Schnittke, another important composer with Hamburg connections. There is also plenty to explore beyond the boundaries of classical music, including a little spotlight of the contemporary French chanson scene.
Without the energy of the Hamburg orchestras, the Music Festival would not be the amazing season highlight it always manages to be. First and foremost among them the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, which is performing Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new Organ Concerto with the composer himself. Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra are bringing Jörg Widmann’s oratorio »ARCHE« back to the Elbphilharmonie, after its incredible success in 2017. And the Symphoniker Hamburg and Ensemble Resonanz also present sophisticated programmes.
The soprano Julia Bullock and the American Modern Opera Company stage Olivier Messiaen’s twelve-part cycle »Harawi – Chant d’amour et de mort«, and the Tallis Scholars present an a-cappella programme centred around the »Song of Songs«. From Mendelssohn’s »A Midsummer Night’s Dream« and Prokofiev’s »Romeo and Juliet« to Schumann’s stirring choral ballad »Vom Pagen und der Königstochter«, numerous works on the Music Festival programme bear direct reference to the theme of love.
The acclaimed Quatuor Modigliani also dedicates three concerts to Franz Schubert’s string quartets, pianist Tamara Stefanovich demonstrates extreme stamina in a five-hour sonata marathon, and Alexander Melnikov presents piano works by influential Russian modernist composers.
Supported by the Stiftung Elbphilharmonie and the Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Kent Nagano
Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Kent Nagano
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Marianne Crebassa / Duncan Ward
Haydn / Berio / Farrenc – Hamburg International Music Festival
Quatuor Ébène / Antoine Tamestit
Mozart: String Quartets – Hamburg International Music Festival
»Palabras Urgentes« – Hamburg International Musik Festival
»Songbirds« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Barbara Hannigan / Göteborgs Symfoniker
Strawinsky / Offenbach / Weill – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Freiburger Barockorchester / Pablo Heras-Casado
Schubert / Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Tamara Stefanovich / Esa-Pekka Salonen
Please note the change of artist
»Let’s Turn IT Into Sound«– Hamburg International Music Festival
Tamara Stefanovich Sonata Marathon
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Tamara Stefanovich / Esa-Pekka Salonen
Please note the change of artist
Hamburg International Music Festival
Karol Szymanowski Quartet / Michail Lifits
Hamburg International Music Festival / NDR das neue werk
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Wolf / Mozart / Ysaÿe – Hamburg International Music Festival
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Il Pomo d’Oro / Jakub Józef Orliński / Francesco Corti – Hamburg International Music Festival
Harawi – A Song of Love and Death
American Modern Opera Company / Julia Bullock – Hamburg International Music Festival
Quatuor Modigliani / Schubert’s String Quartets I
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Iveta Apkalna / Esa-Pekka Salonen
Sibelius / Salonen / Berlioz / Skrjabin – Hamburg International Music Festival
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und -Orchester / Thomas Hengelbrock
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 / Cherubini: Requiem – Hamburg International Music Festival
Quatuor Modigliani / Schubert’s String Quartets II
Hamburg International Music Festival
Excerpts from Italian Operas – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Iveta Apkalna / Esa-Pekka Salonen
Sibelius / Salonen / Berlioz / Skrjabin – Hamburg International Music Festival
Quatuor Modigliani / Schubert’s String Quartets III
Hamburg International Music Festival
Vienna Philharmonic / Jakub Hrůša
Janáček: Jealousy / Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
love est. 2023. wie wir lieben
Hamburg International Music Festival
Chanson: Keren Ann & Quatuor Debussy
Hamburg International Music Festival
»The Song of Songs« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Julia Fischer
Bach / Schnittke / Elgar / Tchaikovsky – Hamburg International Music Festival
Alexander Melnikov / Piano Recital
Hamburg International Music Festival / Spotlight Alfred Schnittke
Ballads by Robert Schumann – Hamburg International Music Festival
Sabine Lutzenberger / Barbora Kabátková / Waed Bouhassoun – Hamburg International Music Festival
Anna Vinnitskaya / Piano Recital
Please note the change of artist and programme
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Augustin Hadelich / Alan Gilbert
Ligeti: Apparitions / Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Schönberg: Pelleas & Melisande – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Augustin Hadelich / Alan Gilbert
Ligeti: Apparitions / Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Schönberg: Pelleas & Melisande – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Symphoniker Hamburg / Andris Poga
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Schnittke: Faust Cantata – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Vokalensemble / FestspielOrchester Göttingen / George Petrou – Hamburg International Music Festival
Song Recital »Many Loves, One Voice« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Rolando Villazón & Xavier de Maistre
»Serenata latina« – Hamburg International Music Festival
BAROCCO / A musical manifesto by Kirill Serebrennikov
Hamburg International Music Festival
Love in Exile: Arooj Aftab / Vijay Iyer / Shahzad Ismaily
Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / NDR Vokalensemble / Soloists – Hamburg International Music Festival
Say: İlk Şarkılar (First Songs) – Hamburg International Music Festival
Krystian Zimerman / Piano Recital
Hamburg International Music Festival
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Alan Gilbert
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / NDR Vokalensemble / Soloists – Hamburg International Music Festival
Caterina Lichtenberg & Mike Marshall
»Mandolin Magic« – Spotlight Mandolin / Hamburg International Music Festival
Ensemble Resonanz / Herbert Schuch / Riccardo Minasi
Mozart / Brahms / Streich – Hamburg International Music Festival
Musicbanda Franui / Florian Boesch / Nikolaus Habjan – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg Philharmmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano
Widmann: ARCHE – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
Kammerorchester Wien-Berlin / Rudolf Buchbinder / Rainer Honeck
Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Chopin / Dvořák – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg Philharmmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano
Widmann: ARCHE – Hamburg International Music Festival
Cecilia Bartoli / Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco / Gianluca Capuano
»Farinelli and His Time« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Lang Lang / Andris Nelsons
Beethoven: Coriolan Ouverture, Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
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