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’ positions in Boston and Leipzig commenced in the 2014/15 season and in February 2018, respectively. Autumn 2019 marked a ground-breaking highlight for Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: three performances featuring musicians from both institutions within one joint orchestra were given at Boston’s Symphony Hall as part of the alliance between the two orchestras. In 2020, this unique partnership between both orchestras culminated in another highlight, a joint release of the major symphonic works by Richard Strauss for Deutsche Grammophon, including Strauss’s Festliches Präludium jointly performed by musicians from both orchestras. To mark the release, Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig completed a residency tour to London, Hamburg, Vienna and Paris to perform two all-Strauss programmes in May 2022.
Full BioFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonie Nr. 5 D-Dur op. 107 ("Reformations-Symphonie")
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang - Symphonie-Kantate B-Dur op. 52 für Soli, Chor und Orchester (1839/40)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonie Nr. 5 D-Dur op. 107 ("Reformations-Symphonie")
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Lobgesang - Symphonie-Kantate B-Dur op. 52 für Soli, Chor und Orchester (1839/40)
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,
Leipzig, Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven: Ouverture zu "Die Weihe des Hauses" op. 124 C-Dur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 23 A-Dur KV 488
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Arturs Maskats: Tango für Orchester (2002)
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Suite AV 145 (1945) für Orchester
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Ludwig van Beethoven: Ouverture zu "Die Weihe des Hauses" op. 124 C-Dur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 23 A-Dur KV 488
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Arturs Maskats: Tango für Orchester (2002)
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Suite AV 145 (1945) für Orchester
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Ludwig van Beethoven: Ouverture zu "Die Weihe des Hauses" op. 124 C-Dur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 23 A-Dur KV 488
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Duke Ellington: "New World A’Comin" für Klavier und Orchester (1945)
Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn: "Tonk" für Klavier zu 4 Händen (1940)
Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 22 Es-Dur Hob. I:22 "Der Philosoph"
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 126 (1966)
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Iman Habibi: Zhiân für Orchester (2023)
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107 (1959)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 22 Es-Dur Hob. I:22 "Der Philosoph"
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 126 (1966)
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Iman Habibi: Zhiân für Orchester (2023)
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107 (1959)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 22 Es-Dur Hob. I:22 "Der Philosoph"
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 126 (1966)
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Iman Habibi: Zhiân für Orchester (2023)
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107 (1959)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 22 Es-Dur Hob. I:22 "Der Philosoph"
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 126 (1966)
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Iman Habibi: Zhiân für Orchester (2023)
Dmitrij Schostakowitsch: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107 (1959)
Symphony Hall,
Boston, United States
Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig continue their award-winning Bruckner cycle. This time the Symphonies are coupled with the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The album is set to be released 11 February 2022.
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.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
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