Andris Nelsons conducted with keen focus and vigor, eliciting tonal beauty, technical precision and obvious engagement from the orchestra.
The audience gave Mr. Nelsons and the players an enormous ovation. Whatever the future, for now the Boston Symphony has placed its trust in a young dynamo.
Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. These two positions, in addition to his leadership of a pioneering alliance between both institutions, have firmly established Grammy Award-winning Nelsons as one of the most sought-after conductors in the world today.
Full BioDmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70
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Antonin Dvořák: Symphonie Nr. 7 d-Moll op. 70 (1884)
Shanghai Oriental Art Center Management Co., Ltd.,
Shanghai, China
TicketsLudwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37
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Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sinfonische Dichtung op. 40
Shanghai Oriental Art Center Management Co., Ltd.,
Shanghai, China
TicketsDmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70
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Antonin Dvořák: Symphonie Nr. 7 d-Moll op. 70 (1884)
Xian Concert Hall,
Xi'an, China
Ludwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37
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Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sinfonische Dichtung op. 40
Xian Concert Hall,
Xi'an, China
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70
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Antonin Dvořák: Symphonie Nr. 7 d-Moll op. 70 (1884)
Guangdong Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou,
Guangzhou, China
TicketsLudwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37
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Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sinfonische Dichtung op. 40
Guangdong Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou,
Guangzhou, China
TicketsModest Mussorgsky: Vorspiel zur Oper "Chowanschtschina"
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 9 Es-Dur op. 70
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Antonin Dvořák: Symphonie Nr. 7 d-Moll op. 70 (1884)
Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall,
TicketsLudwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37
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Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sinfonische Dichtung op. 40
Act City Hamamatsu Concert Hall,
Hamamatsu City, Japan
TicketsSergej Prokofieff: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 19
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Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 5 cis-Moll in fünf Sätzen für großes Orchester (1901/03)
Osaka Festival Hall,
Osaka, Japan
TicketsWorld-renowned pianist Lang Lang has teamed up with Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester for a Deutsche Grammophon recording of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
Since 2017, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been artistic partners, collaborating extensively on programming, personnel development, and training. Find out more about the unique alliance of these two renowned orchestras.
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