Reincarnation of Baroque ecstasy: Giulio Cesare at the @elbphilharmonie.de
✍️ Mengguang Huang
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Reincarnation of Baroque ecstasy: Giulio Cesare at the @elbphilharmonie.de
✍️ Mengguang Huang
bachtrack.com/review-giuli...
Haunting Elektra by Alan Gilbert, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Karita Mattila, Ingela Brimberg, Benjamin Bruns and Andreas Bauer Kanabas.
Incredible week at @elbphilharmonie.de: Klaus Mäkelä and @concertgborkest.bsky.social with Bruckner 8.
Mit Daria Challah geht unsere digitale Initiative »Creator in Residence« jetzt schon in die dritte Saison. Freut mich, dass #ZDF aspekte das Projekt als (eine) Antwort auf die Frage vorstellt, wie Kunst den Menschen näherkommen kann (ab 32:39). Vielen Dank für den Besuch in der @elbphilharmonie.de!
High granularity, slow cooking: Batiashvili, Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic in Hamburg @elbphilharmonie.de
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Helmut Lachenmann is listening.
Helmut Lachenmann at 90: Close attention while the Ensemble Modern rehearses at the @Elbphilharmonie.de. Hour-long conversations with musicians and staff. »Concertini« in the Grand Hall, a standing ovation. Chatter with audience members and selfies. Deeply impressed by this man’s energy. 🫶
🎧 Daria Challah und ich haben mit dem Deutschlandfunk über unsere digitale »Creator in Residence«-Initative gesprochen, die jetzt schon in die dritte Saison gegangen ist.
"Pop music’s covers have vanished. And that’s national tragedy territory, as far as I’m concerned." - Wesley Morris, critic and co-host of "Cannonball"
Pop music has mostly abandoned the art of covering other people’s music, says the critic Wesley Morris. But what makes a song a cover? The singer Cecile McLorin Salvant joins Wesley to talk about the art of singing music originally performed by someone else. nyti.ms/4pfa9rP
I think Daria Challah, our Creator in Residence, phrased it correctly in her viral video quoted here: Rosalía’s song might »change the way people see this tradition of music.« We’ve been asked for playlists already. Does that make it classical music (opera even)? Probably not? But why should it?
Photo from the Exhibition A LIFE IN A FEW LINES at the Deichtorhallen.
Huguette Caland at Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
»The Concert Hall That Nearly Broke Hamburg and Then Made History«. Was fun to show Shalbha Sarda around the @elbphilharmonie.de for this piece.
Tenebrae’s spatial sonic experiment: Pärt, Tallis and Tavener at the Elbphilharmonie @tenebraechoir.bsky.social
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Classical music is being recognized by one of the most gifted and influential people in pop culture. Is Rosalía’s new video the sweetest gift we have received this year?
Brick, glass, ship, and song — Hamburg’s harbor in dialogue.
The Seute Deern recalls seafaring days, while behind her rises the newly opened Elbphilharmonie — a former warehouse crowned with a wave-shaped glass façade, now one of Europe’s most iconic concert halls.
Etwas, in dem Sie sich wohlfühlen. Egal ob alt oder neu, schick oder leger: Wie schön, dass Sie kommen! 🫶
The prize is inspired by the legacy of Felix Jud, a bookseller, who refused to bow down to the Nazi regime. He was imprisoned in 1943 and survived the Concentration Camp Neuengamme @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social. His shop is still one of Hamburg’s most traditional and beloved literary institutions.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage at the Elphi.
Brilliant speech by #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie at the Harbour Front Literature Festival opening @Elbphilharmonie.de. Humour, »beautiful anger« and wise words about the necessity of writing. Today she was awarded the Felix Jud Prize for Defiant Thinking. Laudatio by activist and author #AumaObama.
Omer Meir Wellber and Steven Hough on stage.
Moin, Omer Meir Wellber! Energetic debut at the @Elbphilharmonie.de as new General Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
We will defeat the robots by asking them to produce a seahorse emoji futurism.com/chatgpt-hayw...
Pierre #Boulez at the ondes Martenot in 1947. From the indispensable catalogue of Boulez’s works published earlier this year
Die Ausladung der Münchner Philharmoniker und ihres künftigen Chefdirigenten Lahav Shani von dem Flanders Festival Ghent ist töricht und ein nicht hinzunehmender Angriff auf die Freiheit der Kunst. Ich freue mich, dass er in der Elbphilharmonie zu Gast sein wird.
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Der Dirigent Christoph von Dohnányi ist am Samstag gestorben. Alan Gilbert, Chefdirigent des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters, war von 1995 bis 1997 sein Assistent und blieb seinem Mentor freundschaftlich verbunden. Erinnerungen an Witz, Perfektion und Mama Santa’s Pizza van-magazin.de/mag/alan-gil...
What a fascinating period piece - Estonian early music ensemble Hortus Musicus perform the original version of Arvo Pärt's Fratres on Finnish television in 1979. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cruM...
Schon lange kein so beeindruckendes Konzert mehr erlebt wie gestern abend Agnes Obel in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/kult...
Obituario del gran director alemán Christoph von Dohnányi, que falleció el sábado en Múnich a punto de cumplir 96 años ⤵️ elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Einer der ganz Großen ist gestorben. www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/kult...
Stefan Dohr (left) and Esa Pekka-Salonen (right) on stage after an exciting performance of the latter‘s new Horn Concerto.
New season, new horizons. Good read over at @bachtrack.com about the @Elbphilharmonie.de season opening concert with Orchestre de Paris, newly announced incoming Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and BerlinPhil’s own Stefan Dohr. bachtrack.com/de_DE/review...
