Since the Elbphilharmonie opened, Estonian star conductor Paavo Järvi has been one of its permanent guests, enchanting Hamburg audiences at several concerts a year. Now the conductor of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen again comes to the Grand Hall with his second top orchestra, the venerable Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. They will be joined by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who gave two brilliant renderings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s »Goldberg Variations« in Hamburg last season.
On the programme is a new piano concerto by US composer John Adams, which was commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie among others. And the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich tackles two of the most famous modern orchestral pieces by György Ligeti and Witold Lutosawski, who skilfully combined folk music from Hungary and Poland with a thrilling orchestral sound in the 1950s.
PERFORMERS
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich orchestra
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Paavo Järvi conductor
PROGRAM
György Ligeti
Concert Românesc
John Adams
After the Fall for Piano and Orchestra (German premiere)
- Interval -
Witold Lutosawski
Concerto for Orchestra
