Opening Night 2023: Alan Gilbert & Joshua Bell

Dutilleux: Métaboles / Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps

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Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert © Marco Borggreve
Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell © Phillip Knott
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Pre-concert talk 19:00

  • Start 20:00

  • Interval

  • End ca. 22:15

Upheaval and change

The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and its chief conductor Alan Gilbert are joined by this year’s artist in residence Joshua Bell for a start to the 2023/24 season that is literally »elemental«: at the opening night, the Grammy prizewinning violinist gives the first performance of a suite for violin and orchestra that he commissioned from five well-known American composers. Under the title »The Elements«, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, Edgar Meyer, Jessie Montgomery and Kevin Puts have written short pieces 6–8 minutes in length devoted to earth, water, fire, air and ether – the five elements, in other words, that form the basis of Greek philosophy as practised by Aristotle and also of traditional natural philosophy and medicine.

Performers

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Joshua Bell violin

conductor Alan Gilbert

Programme

Henri Dutilleux
Métaboles for large orchestra

Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, Edgar Meyer, Jessie Montgomery, Kevin Puts
The Elements – Suite for Violin and Orchestra

– Interval –

Igor Strawinsky
Le sacre du printemps / Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts

Pre-Concert Talk

(in German)

19:00 / Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal

Spotlight

Joshua Bell

Live Broadcast

The concert will be broadcast live in the Elbphilharmonie Mediatheque.

Promoter: NDR

From the Mediatheque : Videos, Podcasts, Articles

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