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This Season, Alan Gilbert Takes NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to New Heights

21cmediagroup / 31st August 2022 / News

Alan Gilbert (photo: Peter Hundert)

(August 2022)— After three seasons as Chief Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie OrchestraAlan Gilbert has already begun to “put Hamburg on the map as a musical center and lead the orchestra into the first rank” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Through adventurous programming, a thought-provoking new festival and regular online streaming, he continues to take the orchestra to new heights this season. Highlights of their 2022-23 engagements include the inaugural edition of “Elbphilharmonie Visions,” a ten-day biennial celebration of today’s new music; symphonies by MozartSchubertMahler and Tchaikovsky; collaborations with Julia Bullock and Alisa Weilerstein; and works by the conductor’s fellow Americans, such as John AdamsSamuel BarberLeonard BernsteinMargaret Bonds and George Gershwin, whose Porgy and Bess forms a centerpiece of “Love,” the 2023 Hamburg International Music Festival. Beyond Hamburg, 2022-23 sees Gilbert lead Ariadne auf Naxos to open his second season as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera, before returning to the podiums of the Leipzig Gewandhaus OrchestraBavarian Radio SymphonyRoyal Stockholm Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic, where he undertakes two programs in the orchestra’s 2023 Biennial. To complete his lineup, early next year the Grammy-winning conductor returns to the States to premiere new commissions with both the Boston Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, with which he also reprises his celebrated account of Nielsen’s Third Symphony.

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Sep 2 & 3
Hamburg, Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Sep 8, 9 & 11
   Sep 8 & 11: Hamburg, Germany
   Sep 9: Lübeck, Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
WALTON: Viola Concerto
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8

Sep 28; Oct 1, 4, 6, 12, 15, 18 & 22
Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Swedish Opera
R. STRAUSS: Ariadne auf Naxos

Oct 13
Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Award Concert
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 (with Inon Barnatan, piano)
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique

Oct 16
Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Prize Winner Concert
DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto (with Yo-Yo Ma, cello)
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique

Oct 20 & 21
Munich, Germany
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (with Kirill Gerstein, piano)
R. STRAUSS: “Burleske” for Piano and Orchestra (with Kirill Gerstein, piano)
BRAHMS, orch. SCHOENBERG: Piano Quartet in G minor

Oct 27, 28 & 30
   Oct 27 & 30: Hamburg, Germany
   Oct 28: Lübeck, Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7

Nov 3, 4 & 6
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
BRAHMS: Tragic Overture
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto (with Nikolaj Znaider, violin) [Nov 3 & 4 only]
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

Dec 1 & 2
Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Rudolf Buchbinder, piano)

Dec 8–10
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
MOZART: The Magic Flute Overture
BARBER: Cello Concerto (with Alisa Weilerstein, cello)
BARBER: Adagio for Strings
MOZART: Symphony No. 38, “Prague”

Dec 30 & 31; Jan 1
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
GERSHWIN: songs, various (with Julia Bullock, vocalist)
BONDS: songs, various (with Julia Bullock, vocalist)
R. STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
L. BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps
RAVEL: La valse

Jan 5 & 7
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Orchestra
James OLIVIERO: Timpani Concerto (with Paul Yancich, timpani; world premiere of Cleveland Orchestra commission)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 90
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 3 (“Sinfonia espansiva”)

Jan 12–14
Boston, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
L. BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps
STENHAMMER: Serenade
Justin DELLO JOIO: Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Oceans Apart (with Garrick Ohlsson, piano; world premiere of BSO commission)
DVOŘÁK: Carnival Overture

Jan 18–21
Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Swedish Opera
Operatic production (details TBA)

Feb 2
Hamburgh, Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Biennial festival: “Elbphilharmonie Visions”
Lisa STREICH: Flügel (world premiere)
Brett DEAN: In This Brief Moment (with Hallé Choir; CBSO Chorus; Siobhan Stagg, soprano; Patrick Terry, countertenor)

Feb 9
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Biennial festival: “Elbphilharmonie Visions”
Anna THORVALDSODOTTIR: Catamorphosis
Hans ABRAHAMSEN: Let Me Tell You (with Lauren Snouffer, soprano)

Feb 12
Hamburg Germany
Biennial festival: “Elbphilharmonie Visions”
Esa-Pekka SALONEN: Homunculus
John ADAMS: Scheherazade No. 2 (with Leila Josefowicz, violin)

Feb 23–25
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Philharmonic
BLACHER: Orchestral variations on a Theme by Paganini
BARBER: Violin Concerto (with Joshua Bell, violin)
DUTILLEUX: Symphony No. 2 (“Le Double”)

March 11 & 15
Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Royal Opera
Orchestral program (details TBA)

March 20–April 6
Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Royal Opera
Operatic production (details TBA)

March 27–April 3
Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Royal Opera
Operatic production (details TBA)

April 19, 30, 21, 26 & 27
   April 19 & 20: Stockholm, Sweden
   April 21: Göteborg, Sweden
   April 26 & 27: Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
(Details TBA)

May 19 & 20
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Hamburg International Music Festival: “Love”
LIGETI: Apparitions
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto (with Augustin Hadelich, violin)
SCHOENBERG: Pelleas und Melisande

May 26 & 28
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Hamburg International Music Festival: “Love”
GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess

May 13–June 8
Stockholm, Sweden
Royal Swedish Opera
Operatic production (details TBA)

June 23–25
Hamburg Germany
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Open-Air Concerts
R. STRAUSS: Don Juan
LALO: Symphonie espagnole (with Maria Dueñas, violin)
RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso
STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite

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