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 renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.
Andris Nelsons conducted with concise focus and vigor and elicited the orchestra both tonal beauty and technical precision and visible enthusiasm.
Nelsons began his tenure as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 2014/15 season. This season, the BSO and Nelsons embark on a major tour throughout Asia, giving their first concerts together in Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
During the 2019/20 season, Nelsons continues his regular collaborations with the Wiener Philharmoniker, with whom he conducts the prestigious New Year’s Day concert in 2020, broadcast to millions across the world.
Full BioJüri Reinvere: Maria Anna, wach, im Nebenzimmer (2021) Notturno für großes Orchester
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Konzert für Trompete und Orchester B-Dur op. 94
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Igor Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Das Frühlingsopfer) (1910-13)
Philharmonie Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
TicketsJüri Reinvere: Maria Anna, wach, im Nebenzimmer (2021) Notturno für großes Orchester
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Konzert für Trompete und Orchester B-Dur op. 94
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Igor Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Das Frühlingsopfer) (1910-13)
Philharmonie Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
TicketsJüri Reinvere: Maria Anna, wach, im Nebenzimmer (2021) Notturno für großes Orchester
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Konzert für Trompete und Orchester B-Dur op. 94
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Igor Strawinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Das Frühlingsopfer) (1910-13)
Philharmonie Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
TicketsMieczyslaw Weinberg: Jüdische Rhapsodie op. 36/2
Alfred Schnittke: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 4 (1984)
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Peter I. Tschaikowsky: Symphonie Nr. 1 g-Moll op. 13 (Winterträume)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
TicketsMieczyslaw Weinberg: Jüdische Rhapsodie op. 36/2
Alfred Schnittke: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 4 (1984)
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Peter I. Tschaikowsky: Symphonie Nr. 1 g-Moll op. 13 (Winterträume)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
TicketsSiegfried Thiele: Gesänge an die Sonne für Alt-Solo, Tenor-Solo, Chor, Orgel und Orchester (1981)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 d-Moll op. 125
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
TicketsHK (Heinz Karl) Gruber: "Short Stories from the Vienna Woods" für Orchester
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5 A-Dur KV 219
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Sergej Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur op. 100
Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Boston, United States
TicketsHK (Heinz Karl) Gruber: "Short Stories from the Vienna Woods" für Orchester
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5 A-Dur KV 219
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Sergej Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur op. 100
Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Boston, United States
TicketsHK (Heinz Karl) Gruber: "Short Stories from the Vienna Woods" für Orchester
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 5 A-Dur KV 219
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Sergej Prokofieff: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur op. 100
Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Boston, United States
Tickets
In this latest installment in "an ongoing Shostakovich survey that has rightly won him three Grammy Awards" (NY Times), Andris Nelsons and the BSO bookend the composer's brilliant symphonic career.
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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