Strollers, prams, wheeled walkers, walking-stick umbrellas, bags sized A3 (42 cm x 30 cm) or above, sport bags, backpacks and luggage must be checked in at the cloakroom.
Jackets and handbags may be taken into the hall.
»Sparks« – works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Friedrich Gulda
Serious or entertaining, Mozart or Popart? Do you have to commit yourself at all? »Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself«, wrote Walt Whitman in his »Song of Myself«, whose flexible conception of identity was a major inspiration for the 2025/26 Camerata season.
And Friedrich Gulda would probably have signed it without hesitation! The Austrian crossover artist was an expert on Bach and Beethoven as well as a successful jazz pianist and hated any confinement by convention. In his cello concerto, composed in 1980, he also documented stylistic »multitudes« in sheet music: Schubert, Schumann, New Music, village band, big band jazz, improvisation and rock - everything is uninhibitedly combined so that sparks fly! It is a point of honour that Sergey Malov, who also walks between worlds, plays the concert on his little cello da spalla - and lets Gulda meet his greatest idol: The latter was downright obsessed with »Mr Mozart«, as he affectionately called him. Malov switches to the violin for the Salzburg child prodigy's early Violin Concerto No. 1 and, as the leader of the Symphony No. 39, which concludes with a fast-paced finale.
Hamburger Camerata
Sergey Malov violin, violoncello da spalla and direction
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Violine und Orchester B-Dur KV 207
Friedrich Gulda
Konzert für Violoncello und Blasorchester
– Interval –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony in E-flat major, KV 543
(in German)
18:30 / Laeiszhalle, Großer Saal
Promoter: Hamburger Camerata
Since 1908, the Laeiszhalle has been a meeting place for Hamburg's musical life. The neo-baroque Laeiszhalle Grand Hall accommodates over 2,000 guests. (Please note: The Laeiszhalle is a separate concert hall located three kilometres away from the Elbphilharmonie.)
Strollers, prams, wheeled walkers, walking-stick umbrellas, bags sized A3 (42 cm x 30 cm) or above, sport bags, backpacks and luggage must be checked in at the cloakroom.
Jackets and handbags may be taken into the hall.
Facilities for ladies are located behind the cloakrooms on all floors. Facilities for gentlemen can be found on the landing between the floors, also located behind the cloakrooms.
A fully accessible toilet for persons with mobility disabilities is located behind the cloakroom on the ground floor (Parkett links).
Laeiszhalle Hamburg
Johannes-Brahms-Platz
20355 Hamburg
The Laeiszhalle can be easily reached by bus, underground and bicycle.
The nearest stops include:
Underground line U2: Gänsemarkt / Messehallen
Underground line U1: Stephansplatz
Bus 3, X35, 112: Johannes-Brahms-Platz
Bus X3: U Gänsemarkt (Valentinskamp)
Bus 4, 5, 109: Stephansplatz
StadtRAD (public city bicycle) station: Sievekingplatz / Gorch-Fock-Wall
There are bicycle stands available in front of the Laeiszhalle.
Gänsemarkt multistorey car park: Dammtorwall / Welckerstrasse
Rate per hour or part thereof: €4.50
Night rate (18:00–06:00): maximum €11
24-hour rate: maximum €30
Please note: There are several construction sites in the immediate vicinity of the Laeiszhalle which may make it difficult to get to the concert. Please therefore plan enough time for your journey to the concert.
The Laeiszhalle is a separate concert hall located three kilometres away from the Elbphilharmonie.
We suggest visitors arrive at the Laeiszhalle main entrance not later than 30 minutes before the start of the concert or event. Late seating is not guaranteed and latecomers may not be admitted to the concert hall.
The entrance of the Recital Hall is located on Gorch-Fock-Wall.
Admission times Grand Hall and Recital Hall:
Events without pre-concert talk:
Foyer: 60 minutes before the start of the event
Hall: 30 minutes before the start of the event
Events with pre-concert talk:
Foyer: 90 minutes before the start of the event
Hall: 15 minutes before the start of the talk
If a pre-concert talk is offered for this event, it is noted above under PROGRAMME.
All halls and spaces are accessible for visitors with disabilities. More information at www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/accessibility.
Photography is permitted at the Laeiszhalle for private purposes only. Please respect the privacy of other visitors and help ensure an undisturbed concert experience for all guests and artists. Employees and artists may not be photographed.
Photography, audio or video recordings of concerts and events are strictly prohibited.
Event-related video recordings or photographs for editorial or commercial purposes must be authorised by the Press Office of the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle.
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