NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Thomas Hampson / Alan Gilbert
Schoenberg / Weill / Ives – Opening of 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 »War and Peace«.
»Peace, peace on Earth!«: the message conveyed by Arnold Schoenberg’s choral work »Friede auf Erden« is unambiguous. Though after he had completed the score, the composer was not the only person to admit that it was an illusion – as we found out in Europe last year. Nonetheless, these words cannot be repeated too often. And that spirit prompted Alan Gilbert to choose the Late Romantic work as the opener for the 2024 edition of the Hamburg International Music Festival.
The festival motto this time round is »War and Peace«, following the title of Tolstoy’s famous and timeless novel. It shows how composers in different eras have treated this often-distressing subject. In her large-scale oratorio »Über Liebe und Hass« (About Love and Hate), for example, Sofia Gubaidulina continues her unwavering mission »to bring love to places where hatred rules«. It goes without saying that the festival would not be complete without Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with its anthem appealing for »all men to become brothers«. And with Olivier Messiaen’s sole opera »Saint François d’Assise« about peacemaker St Francis of Assisi, Kent Nagano and his Philharmonic Orchestra bring a lavishly produced project to the Grand Hall that fits the festival motto perfectly.
Supported by Stiftung Elbphilharmonie and the Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Thomas Hampson / Alan Gilbert
Schoenberg / Weill / Ives – Opening of Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Prager Philharmonischer Chor / Thomas Hampson / Alan Gilbert
Schoenberg / Weill / Ives – Hamburg International Music Festival
London Symphony Orchestra / Janine Jansen / Sir Antonio Pappano
Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps / Barber: Violin Concerto / Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 – Hamburg International Music Festival
London Symphony Orchestra / Alison Balsom / Sir Antonio Pappano
Ponchielli: Elegia / Marsalis: Trumpet Concerto / Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Alan Gilbert
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – Hamburg International Music Festival
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Christian Tetzlaff / Vladimir Jurowski
Martinů / Suk / Shostakovich – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Nils Mönkemeyer / Edicson Ruiz / Kent Nagano
Tarnopolski: Im Dunkel vor der Dämmerung / Beethoven: »Eroica« Symphony – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Alan Gilbert
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – Hamburg International Music Festival
FAST LANE – Young top musicians getting ready for a big career / Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Nils Mönkemeyer / Edicson Ruiz / Kent Nagano
Tarnopolski: Im Dunkel vor der Dämmerung / Beethoven: »Eroica« Symphony – Hamburg International Music Festival
Gubaidulina: Über Liebe und Hass
Gubaidulina: Über Liebe und Hass – Hamburg International Music Festival
Günther Groissböck / Malcolm Martineau
»Der Mensch liegt in größter Not« – Song recital / Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Mikko Franck
Adams: The Wound-Dresser / Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV 82 / Strauss: Tod und Verklärung – Hamburg International Music Festival
Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall
»War and Peace« – Hamburg International Music Festival
50 Years of the Arditti Quartet
Portrait Rebecca Saunders / State of the Art / Hamburg International Music Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Mikko Franck
Adams: The Wound-Dresser / Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV 82 / Strauss: Tod und Verklärung – Hamburg International Music Festival
Johanna Vargas & Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente – NDR das neue werk
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Daniil Trifonov / Jakub Hrůša
Gershwin: Cuban Overture & Piano Concerto / Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances – Hamburg International Music Festival
»Five Decades Celebration« – Hamburg International Music Festival
Hathor Consort / Dorothee Mields / Romina Lischka
Das Alte Werk / Hamburg International Music Festival
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio / Pablo Barragán
Hamburg International Music Festival
Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement – Hamburg International Music Festival
Ensemble Resonanz / Saerom Park / Dirk Rothbrust
Portrait Rebecca Saunders / Hamburg International Music Festival
Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Sir András Schiff
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn & Piano Concerto No. 2 / Haydn: Sinfonia concertante – Hamburg International Music Festival
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Jess Gillam / Marin Alsop
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 / MacMillan: Saxophone Concerto / Prokofiev: »Romeo and Juliet« Suites – Hamburg International Music Festival
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Lang Lang / Christian Thielemann
Ravel / Debussy – Hamburg International Music Festival
Messiaen: St. François d’Assise
Hamburg Philharmonic State Ochestra / Kent Nagano – Hamburg International Music Festival
Messiaen: St. François d’Assise
Hamburg Philharmonic State Ochestra / Kent Nagano – Hamburg International Music Festival
Messiaen: St. François d’Assise
Hamburg Philharmonic State Ochestra / Kent Nagano – Hamburg International Music Festival
Britten: War Requiem / Teodor Currentzis
SWR Symphonieorchester – Hamburg International Music Festival
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