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 Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With these positions, and in leading a pioneering alliance between two such 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 BioBetsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite (2015)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester Nr. 1 a-Moll op. 33
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Claude Debussy: La Mer (Trois Esquisses Symphoniques)
Maurice Ravel: La Valse. Poème chorégraphique
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
Lenox, United States
TicketsEdward Elgar: Enigma-Variationen über ein eigenes Thema op. 36
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Kevin Puts: The Brightness of Light
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
Lenox, United States
TicketsGeorge Gershwin: Concerto in F (Fassung für 2 Klaviere von Gershwin)
George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Variations for piano and orchestra
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Igor Strawinsky: Petruschka (1911) - Burleske in vier Bildern
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
Lenox, United States
TicketsRichard Wagner: "Walkürenritt" aus dem 3. Aufzug der Oper "Die Walküre"
Koussevitzky Music Shed,
Lenox, United States
TicketsAnton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 8 c-Moll
Das Kurhaus Wiesbaden,
Wiesbaden, Germany
TicketsAnton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 8 c-Moll
Das Kurhaus Wiesbaden,
Wiesbaden, Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasie und Fuge g-Moll BWV 542 für Orgel
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" - Choral aus der Kantate "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", BWV 147
Johann Sebastian Bach: Präludium und Fuge für Orgel Es-Dur BWV 552 in der Orchesterbearbeitung von A. Schönberg
Johann Sebastian Bach: Choral "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" BWV 645
Johann Sebastian Bach: Präludium und Fuge für Orgel Es-Dur BWV 552 in der Orchesterbearbeitung von A. Schönberg
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 8 c-Moll
Royal Albert Hall,
London, United Kingdom
Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 8 c-Moll
Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern - KKL,
Luzern, Switzerland
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 17 G-Dur KV 453
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Claude Debussy: La Mer (Trois Esquisses Symphoniques)
Igor Strawinsky: Der Feuervogel - Suite (für großes Orchester) von 1919
Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern - KKL,
Luzern, Switzerland
Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig continue their acclaimed Bruckner cycle with Symphony No. 6, which Anton Bruckner himself described as his “boldest” and “most brazen”, and Symphony No. 9, which had Bruckner struggling for a total of nine years. The symphonies are coupled with Wagner’s Preludes to “Parsifal” and “Siegfried Idyll”.