Take five: Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie celebrates an early birthday

Por Stephen Pritchard, 12 enero 2022

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“London could have had all of this and more in the doomed Centre for Music. It makes you weep...”

Crítica hecha desde Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg el 11 enero 2022

Adams, Tromba lontana

Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Adès, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Ligeti, Étude no. 5 "Arc-en-ciel"

Salonen, Wing on Wing

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Kirill Gerstein, Piano

Alan Gilbert, Dirección

Anu Komsi, Soprano

Piia Komsi, Soprano

Gilbert y NDR Elbphilharmonie en el Palau: el arte de acompañar

Miquel Martínez, 13th November

La temporada Palau 100 se abre con un grandioso concierto a cargo de la NDR Elbphilharmonie que incluía la Séptima sinfonía de Bruckner y el Segundo concierto de violín de Bartók a cargo de Leonidas Kavakos.

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La Orquesta Elbphilharmonie llena de misterio el Festival de Santander

Matteo Conti, 21st August

La orquesta de la NDR alemana sumergió al público de la sala Argenta de Santander en un mar de emociones que fluyeron desde la inconclusa y dramática Décima de Mahler, hasta la bucólica segunda sinfonía de Brahms, pasando por una selección de lieder del compositor vienés.

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Bychkov's uneven Mahler 8 at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 11th April

Doing justice to the vast scale of Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" is itself the mightiest of tasks. Semyon Bychkov and his NDR forces only partially succeed.

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A searingly powerful Duke Bluebeard's Castle at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 9th February

Alan Gilbert and his NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester partner first Igor Levit, and then Michelle DeYoung and Gerald Finley, in a night of outstanding music-making devoted to the music of Bartók.

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Two Sergeis with Vinnitskaya and Valčuha at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 14th September

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.

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Music that makes the flesh creep: Kochanovsky's powerful Prokofiev 6

Alexander Hall, 20th April

Three diverse works written within 15 years of each other, by Kodály, Poulenc and Prokofiev, given with panache by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the amazing Jussen brothers and Stanislav Kochanovsky.

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.