Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano

Strauss / Brahms

This concert has already taken place! 11 | 22 | 34.10 | 46.20 | 52.80
This concert has already taken place! 11 | 22 | 34.10 | 46.20 | 52.80
Gautier Capuçon
Gautier Capuçon © Gregory Batardon
Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano © Benjamin Ealovega
  • Doors open 10:00

  • Start 11:00

  • End ca. 13:00

Description

The great conductor Hans von Bülow, a lover of both Wagner and Brahms, called it »The Tenth« in order to emphasise the kinship with Beethoven’s Ninth. With Brahms’s First Symphony, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra opens its concert season split between the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle. And the opening evening features high-profile soloists as well, namely Naomi Seiler on the viola and Gautier Capuçon on the cello.

The rest of the programme is devoted to music by Richard Strauss. His impressive tone poem »Don Quixote« is a satyr play that paints a scenario of dreams and beauty, despite its drastic illustrative style. This, it’s true, is the diametric opposite of the fateful mood of Brahms’s First, but the juxtaposition of the two compositions represents a grand canvas of the world and of life itself.

Performers

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Naomi Seiler viola

Gautier Capuçon violoncello

conductor Kent Nagano

Programme

Richard Strauss
Don Quixote / Fantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters op. 35

Johannes Brahms
Sinfonie Nr. 1 c-Moll op. 68

Supporting programme

Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:00
Talk in the Kulturcafé with Gautier Capuçon, Elbphilharmonie Kulturcafé

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Promoter: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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