Junge Deutsche Philharmonie / Stefan Dohr / Jonathan Nott

Romanticism meets modernism

»Stefan Dohr may well be the king of his instrument,« writes the American cultural magazine »The New Criterion«. You can now witness this for yourself at the Elbphilharmonie, when the horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic’s horn player, performs – very appropriately – György Ligeti’s »Hamburg Concerto«, together with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Under the direction of Jonathan Nott, Dohr and the orchestra, which is made up of students from German-speaking music academies, venture into a work that breaks away from the tempered tuning that has prevailed ever since Bach and begins to play around with brand new sounds. In contrast to this, Robert Schumann’s concert work for four horns and a large orchestra can, harmonically speaking, be firmly placed in the Romantic tradition.