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Andris Nelsons conducted with keen focus and vigor, eliciting tonal beauty, technical precision and obvious engagement from the orchestra.
The Wall Street Journal

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.
The New York Times

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.
The Boston Globe

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.

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Best of 2018 Awards

Name: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ouvertüre zu "Ruy Blas" op. 95 Robert Schumann: Symphonie Nr. 2 C-Dur op. 61 ************** Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonie Nr. 4 A-Dur op. 90 ("Italienische")
Start: 2019-01-11
End: 2019-01-11
Location: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Andris Nelsons’ recording “Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” was named one of Gramophone’s 2018 Recordings of the Year. Described as “hair-raisingly vibrant” by the Financial Times, the album ...

17 Dec 2018

Schedule

Dec 20 2018

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Richard Wagner: Vorspiel zum 1. Akt der Oper "Parsifal"
Richard Wagner: "Karfreitagszauber" aus der Oper Parsifal
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 9 d-Moll

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,

Leipzig, Germany

Dec 21 2018

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Richard Wagner: Vorspiel zum 1. Akt der Oper "Parsifal"
Richard Wagner: "Karfreitagszauber" aus der Oper Parsifal
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 9 d-Moll

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,

Leipzig, Germany

Dec 22 2018

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ouvertüre zu "Ruy Blas" op. 95
Robert Schumann: Symphonie Nr. 2 C-Dur op. 61
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonie Nr. 4 A-Dur op. 90 ("Italienische")

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,

Leipzig, Germany

Jan 11 2019

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Ouvertüre zu "Ruy Blas" op. 95
Robert Schumann: Symphonie Nr. 2 C-Dur op. 61
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphonie Nr. 4 A-Dur op. 90 ("Italienische")

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig,

Leipzig, Germany

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Latest Recording

Latest Recording:

cd / Feb 2018

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 / Wagner: Lohengrin – Prelude to Act 1 (Live)

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