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 BioSergej Prokofieff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 g-Moll op. 16
Interval
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 7 C-Dur op. 60 (''Leningrader'')
Großes Festspielhaus,
Salzburg, Austria
Sergej Prokofieff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 g-Moll op. 16
Interval
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 7 C-Dur op. 60 (''Leningrader'')
Großes Festspielhaus,
Salzburg, Austria
Ludwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 c-Moll op. 37
Interval
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie op. 64 für großes Orchester (1911/15)
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
LENOX, United States
TicketsCharles Edward Ives: Three Places in New England
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 d-Moll op. 125
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
LENOX, United States
TicketsLeonard Bernstein: Divertimento für Orchester (1980)
Leonard Bernstein: ''Halil'' für Flöte und Kammerorchester (1981)
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story - Musical (1957)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 103 Es-Dur Hob. I:103 ''Mit dem Paukenwirbel''
Interval
Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (''Titan'') (1884-88)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 103 Es-Dur Hob. I:103 ''Mit dem Paukenwirbel''
Interval
Gustav Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur in vier Sätzen für großes Orchester (''Titan'') (1884-88)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Recorded live during concert performances at Symphony Hall in November 2016.