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 is the designated Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, with the appointment commencing in the 2017/18 season. With these positions, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, Grammy Award winning Nelsons is firmly underlined 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 made his Boston Symphony (BSO) debut in March 2011, leading Mahler’s Symphony no. 9 at Carnegie Hall. In summer 2012, Nelsons made his debut in Tanglewood, and in 2013 at Boston Symphony Hall.
Nelsons began his tenure as Music Director of the BSO in the 2014/15 season and after one year his contract was extended through the 2021/22 season.
Full BioFranz Schubert: Sinfonie Nr. 7 h-Moll D 759 (''Unvollendete Sinfonie'' - alte Nr. 8) (1822)
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur ("Die Romantische")
Musikverein Wien,
Wien, Austria
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Othello B174 op.93 Ouvertüre
Antonin Dvorák: ''Lied an den Mond'' - Arie der Rusalka aus der gleichnamigen Oper
Antonin Dvorák: ''Als die alte Mutter'' op. 55 Nr. 4
Antonin Dvorák: Polonaise aus dem 2. Akt der Oper "Rusalka" op. 114
Bedrich Smetana: ''Jak je mi?'' - Arie der Milada aus der Oper ''Dalibor''
Antonin Dvorák: "Ó marno, ó marno!" - Arie aus dem 2. Akt der Oper "Rusalka" op. 114
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Antonin Dvorák: Symphonie Nr. 9 e-Moll op. 95 ''Aus der Neuen Welt'' (1893)
Musikverein Wien,
Wien, Austria
TicketsMichael Gandolfi: Organ concerto
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Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 6 a-Moll in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (1903/04)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
TicketsMichael Gandolfi: Organ concerto
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Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 6 a-Moll in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (1903/04)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Othello B174 op.93 Ouvertüre
Antonin Dvorák: ''Lied an den Mond'' - Arie der Rusalka aus der gleichnamigen Oper
Antonin Dvorák: ''Als die alte Mutter'' op. 55 Nr. 4
Antonin Dvorák: Polonaise aus dem 2. Akt der Oper "Rusalka" op. 114
Bedrich Smetana: ''Jak je mi?'' - Arie der Milada aus der Oper ''Dalibor''
Antonin Dvorák: "Ó marno, ó marno!" - Arie aus dem 2. Akt der Oper "Rusalka" op. 114
Interval
Antonin Dvorák: Symphonie Nr. 9 e-Moll op. 95 ''Aus der Neuen Welt'' (1893)
Konzerthaus Dortmund GmbH,
Dortmund, Germany
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Rusalka op. 114 - Oper (Lyrisches Märchen) in 3 Akten
Bayerische Staatsoper,
München, Germany
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Rusalka op. 114 - Oper (Lyrisches Märchen) in 3 Akten
Bayerische Staatsoper,
München, Germany
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Rusalka op. 114 - Oper (Lyrisches Märchen) in 3 Akten
Bayerische Staatsoper,
München, Germany
TicketsAntonin Dvorák: Rusalka op. 114 - Oper (Lyrisches Märchen) in 3 Akten
Bayerische Staatsoper,
München, Germany
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Recorded live during concert performances at Symphony Hall in November 2016.