Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

From John Adams’ swinging mechanics and Simone Lamsma’s fiery Korngold to Alan Gilbert’s masterfully paced Brahms First, the NDR Elbphilharmonie ignite the evening with boundless energy.

Rachmaninov and Prokofiev not only shared a first name. In their individual ways they helped define Russianness too. Anna Vinnitskaya, Juraj Valčuha and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester are here the exponents.

Alisa Weilerstein shows why Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations deserves to be considered a concerto, while Alan Gilbert’s view of the Eroica with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester raises some doubts.

The Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Krzysztof Urbański, partners Vadim Gluzman in Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto, but is strangely uninspired by Mendelssohn’s tribute to the joys of Italy.