Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Víkingur Ólafsson / Paavo Järvi

Ligeti: Concert Românesc / Adams: Piano Concerto / Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra

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Vikingur Olafsson
Vikingur Olafsson © Ari Mag
Paavo Järvi
Paavo Järvi © Kaupo Kikkas
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich © Gaetan Bally
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Pre-concert talk 19:00

  • Start 20:00

  • Interval

  • End ca. 21:50

Feeling Art

Since the Elbphilharmonie opened, Estonian star conductor Paavo Järvi has been one of its permanent guests, enchanting Hamburg audiences at several concerts a year. Now the conductor of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen again comes to the Grand Hall with his second top orchestra, the venerable Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. They will be joined by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who gave two brilliant renderings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s »Goldberg Variations« in Hamburg last season.

On the programme is a new piano concerto by US composer John Adams, which was commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie among others. And the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich tackles two of the most famous modern orchestral pieces by György Ligeti and Witold Lutosławski, who skilfully combined folk music from Hungary and Poland with a thrilling orchestral sound in the 1950s.

Performers

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Víkingur Ólafsson piano

conductor Paavo Järvi

Programme

György Ligeti
Concert Românesc

John Adams
After the Fall for Piano and Orchestra (German premiere) / Commissioned work by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and others


Encore:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria and a set of 30 variations

– Interval –

Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra


Encore:

Jean Sibelius
Andante festivo (Fassung für Streichorchester)

Pre-Concert Talk

with Vincent Dahm (in German)

19:00 / Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal

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Promoter: HamburgMusik / Konzertdirektion Dr. Rudolf Goette

»After the Fall« by John Adams has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonia Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, LA Phil, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien and Wiener Symphoniker

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