CANCELLED: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester / Ray Chen / Manfred Honeck
The concert programme of the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle cannot go ahead as planned due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This event has had to be cancelled – it will not be rescheduled on an alternative date. Ticket buyers and people participating in the order process will be informed by e-mail. Under the following link you can request a refund of your ticket price: Information on tickets refunds
Violinist Ray Chen is one of those soloists where you can simply lean back and enjoy the music. Even in the most challenging moments, he is in perfect command of his instrument. And this instinctive certainty is definitely called for when Chen joins forces with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to play the Third Violin Concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns: even if the brilliant solo part does not sparkle in the foreground quite as conspicuously as in the composer’s two earlier concertos, virtuosity is nonetheless a central feature of the score.
After the interval, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra with Manfred Honeck on the rostrum embraces the entire world: full of youthful exuberance, it portrays the world’s (natural) beauty, but also its darker depths in Mahler’s First Symphony. The work is an emotional roller coaster true to the spirit of the Romantic movement: euphoric one minute, depressed the next.
Performers
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Ray Chen violin
conductor Manfred Honeck
Programme
Camille Saint-Saëns
Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 3 h-Moll op. 61
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D major, »Titan«
Max Bruch
Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 1 g-Moll op. 26
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 »From the New World«
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