With this concert, Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester continue their Tchaikovsky cycle. They are joined by star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger who plays Mieczysław Weinberg‘s Trumpet Concerto, which Shostakovich described as a symphony for trumpet and orchestra.
2020 New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic
In Shostakovich‘s Violin Concerto No. 1, the violin does not allow itself a break, continually tells its dark story, revolves around the same thoughts, jokes and mocks, stutters, gets into the vicious circle of ostinato Passacaglia bass lines, loses itself in the loneliness of the extended cadenza and again and again falls into beguilingly beautiful singing. The Stalin regime would not have missed the fact that although a great many things run in small circles here, nothing „runs smoothly“, which is why the premiere did not take place until 1955, after Stalin‘s death.
Peter Tchaikovsky initially thought his „Symphony of Fate“ was a failure and believed himself to be at the end of his creative powers. The audience‘s enthusiasm for the work grew with each performance. It was probably the composer‘s nature, plagued by self-doubt, that made it almost impossible for him to develop a self-confident attitude to his own creative power. This recording of the 5th Symphony is a true milestone in Andris Nelson‘s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
Conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons presents a concert night which concentrates every conceivable passion: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Trumpet Concerto Nobody knows de trouble I see performed by Håkan Hardenberger, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection".
The festive series of concerts to celebrate the inauguration of Andris Nelsons as the 21st Gewandhauskapellmeister and the 275th anniversary of the Gewandhausorchester concluded with a riveting performance of two of music history’s great symphonic works.
The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood spotlights Leonard Bernstein’s wide-ranging talents as a composer, featuring a kaleidoscopic array of artists and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway.
For his inaugural concert as the new Gewandhauskapellmeister, Andris Nelsons chose three pieces, each with symbolic power.
Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in May 2017, this release features a delightful concert by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and conductor Andris Nelsons.
In 2014, all signs pointed to a new beginning at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL. For the first time, the festival would take place without the incomparable Claudio Abbado, with the young Latvian Andris Nelsons leading the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. Nelsons had already won the trust and respect of both listeners and performers in a moving memorial concert for Abbado in Lucerne.
It was a deeply affecting and appropriate farewell. The spirit of Claudio Abbado, the great conductor and founder of orchestras who died in January 2014, was present in music, words and silence. Thousands upon thousands came to the Basilica di Santo Stefano in Bologna and the Piazza della Scala in Milan to pay their last respects.
This C Major DVD features rising star conductor Andris Nelsons leading the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a program of popular Richard Strauss orchestral works: Till Eulenspiegel, Macbeth and Also Sprach Zarathustra.
Andris Nelsons is either silently anchored to his chair, deeply reflective and monosyllabic or he's pouring every ounce of energy into his surroundings. It is either/or and there is nothing in-between. There is no 'normal,' and whatever normal may mean, it doesnt happen in his life. In fact, it never did. From his childhood Nelsons was exceptional and still is exceptional. He's an exceptionally talented musician who now lives an extremely unusual life conducting the world's greatest orchestras.
A dynamic young Latvian conductor, he leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in a high-profile program featuring Ives, Adams, Stravinsky and Dvorak. Stuttgarter Zeitung raved, 'One rarely experiences such a natural connection between conductor and orchestra...Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra are a sensation!' This concert cemented Nelsons' state as the 'real deal' among up-and-coming conductors.
2012 brings the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Britten's War Requiem, one of the most powerful pacifist statements in music. The anniversary performance is conducted by the CBSO's Music Director, Andris Nelsons, featuring the Canadian soprano Erin Wall, English tenor Mark Padmore singing the role written for Peter Pears, and German baritone Hanno Muller-Brachmann.
Arkiv Music: Conductor Andris Nelsons brings out the best in the festival chorus and orchestra. It is a Lohengrin one does not easily forget and puts Bayreuth back in the vanguard of Wagner interpretation.
Grammy Award winning pianist Yefim Bronfman joins the superstar conductor Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a stunning performances of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. The program is completed (arguably perfected) with Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, works by Dvorak and Beethoven, and the absolute gift of Yefim Bronfman playing Chopin's Etude in F major op. 10/8. "What a find!" The Wall Street Journal
A performance for the ages - the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the charismatic yet calculated baton of Andris Nelsons give life to Shostakovich's mighty 8th Symphony.
For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frédéric Chopin, the renowned Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen invited the Staatskapelle Berlin to give a truly special program: the rare combination of Chopin‘s two piano concertos in one concert. For this purpose Daniel Barenboim, the orchestra‘s principal conductor, handed over the reins of „his“ ensemble to up-and-coming young conductor Andris Nelsons, assuming the role of piano soloist instead.
Franco Zeffirelli’s magnificent staging of Puccini's final opera — a fairy tale set in a mythical China — is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut.
John Copley's production of one of the most famously melodious and popular of all operas is a classic of the Royal Opera repertory. Conducted by Andris Nelsons with designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman.