NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Joshua Bell / Alan Gilbert
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Mahler: Symphony No. 5
This concert has already taken place!
€15
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29
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49
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71
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82
This concert has already taken place!
€15
|
29
|
49
|
71
|
82
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Doors open 18:30
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Pre-concert talk 19:00
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Start 20:00
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Interval
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End ca. 22:15
Once disturbing, now beguiling
»The Fifth is a cursed work. No one gets it,« Gustav Mahler noted at a performance in Hamburg on 13 March 1905. While the texts and programmes of Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 and 4 had offered listeners some help in understanding the work, Mahler entered a new creative phase with the purely instrumental Fifth. The composer spoke of an »entirely new style«. And, at the time, it was not just in Hamburg that audiences seemed out of their depth.
Nowadays, of course, it is not only the »Adagietto« from the Fifth that has become world-famous – thanks to its use in Luchino Visconti’s »Death in Venice«. In Hamburg, music lovers have long since developed a great affection for their former opera conductors: Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph von Dohnányi, Michael Gielen and Thomas Hengelbrock have each set new Mahler benchmarks with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Now the current principal conductor and self-confessed Mahler aficionado Alan Gilbert sets forth his celebrated Mahler series with a performance of the Fifth.
»Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us, for the first time, the hideous notion that there can be music which stinks to the ear.« This was the verdict of the savage Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick when it first debuted. He was particularly disturbed by the wildly folkloristic impact of the final movement. How times have changed though. Nowadays, it is not only the »catchy« melody in the first movement but precisely the spontaneous »roughness« of the finale that makes Tchaikovsky’s work a perennial favourite of Romantic violin concertos. Joshua Bell, the man with the legendary Stradivarius, incidentally presents the wonderful idea that there might be works of music whose aroma you can hear...
Performers
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Joshua Bell violin
conductor Alan Gilbert
Programme
Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35
– Interval –
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
Pre-Concert Talk
(in German)
19:00 / Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal
Promoter: NDR
