Andris Nelsons
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Biography: Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and in fall 2015, he was announced as Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, commencing in the 2017/18 season. With both appointments, and in leading a pioneering alliance between these two esteemed institutions, Andris Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
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New Year's Concert 2020
Overview: New Year's Concert 2020
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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DORA - Escape into Music
Overview: The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) lived and worked. Their documentary is a journey through time to a half brilliant, half broken Europe.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-10-15
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Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
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Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-05-07
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Lohengrin
Overview: This performance of the Richard Wagner opera Logengrin was filmed in high definition for the Bayreuth Festival in 2011, and features vocalists like Georg Zeppenfeld, Klaus Florian Vogt, and Anette Dasch in the leading roles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-14
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Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
Overview: A performance for the ages - the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the charismatic yet calculated baton of Andris Nelsons give everything they've got to Shostakovich's might 8th Symphony.=2011 winner of the prestigious ECHO Klassik Award, Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on the international scene today.=Over the next few seasons he will continue collaborations with Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. Andris Nelsons is a regular guest at Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-25
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Summer Night Concert 2024
Overview: Vienna Philharmonic’s annual Summer Night Concert takes place in the unique setting of the spectacular Schönbrunn Palace Gardens in Vienna. This year’s concert focuses on popular works from the 19th and 20th centuries that highlight Europe's rich musical heritage. Norwegian opera singer and recitalist Lise Davidsen performs arias from Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destino. The prominent Czech composer Bedrich Smetana is also celebrated in his bicentennial year. Maestro Andris Nelsons returns to conduct the orchestra for the second time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-06-07
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Chopin: The Chopin Piano Concertos
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Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-19
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Dvořák: From the New World
Overview: Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in May 2017, this release features a delightful concert by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and conductor Andris Nelsons. For the program, the conductor has chosen works by Antonin Dvorak, including the Othello Concert Overture, and his famous Symphony No. 9 in E minor- “From the New World.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Overview: In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its entire 2018 season to the iconic composer, conductor, performer, educator and humanitarian. The festivities culminated on Bernstein’s centennial birthday on August 25, 2018, in a special celebrity-studded gala concert. Directed for the stage by James Darrah, The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood illuminates the breadth of Bernstein’s incredible life and career, which inspired generations of music lovers around the globe – from his talent as a composer to his generosity in mentoring other composers and musicians, his inimitable role as a driving musical force at Tanglewood for over 50 years and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-28
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarasthustra, Macbeth & Till Eulenspiegel
Overview: Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on theinternational scene today. He is the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, starting from the 2014/2015 season and he worked with the mostimportant orchestras all over the world incl. Berliner Philharmoniker, WienerPhilharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, PhilharmoniaOrchestra etc. He too is a regular guest at Covent Garden, the MET, WienerStaatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper and Bayreuth Festival. The RCO is one of the best orchestras in the world. This programme includes Richard Strauss´ popular works Also sprach Zarathustraand Till Eulenspiegel.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” – Andris Nelsons
Overview: 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 with “technical perfection” (Kronenzeitung) by “the fantastic Håkan Hardenberger” (Salzburger Nachrichten) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”. “Nelsons proved to be delicate but hearty when interpreting Mahler.” (Wiener Zeitung). The conductor led the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to “enticingly beautiful sounds” (Die Presse). “High praise goes to the vocal soloists Ekaterina Gubanova, Lucy Crowe and the Bavarian Broadcasting choir.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8 (Nelsons)
Overview: 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. 2011 winner of the prestigious ECHO Klassik Award, Andris Nelsons is one of the most sought-after young conductors on the international scene today.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-29
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Alban Berg - Violin Concerto, Felix Mendelssohn - Scottish Symphony
Overview: Alban Berg (1885-1935) Violin Concerto "To the Memory of an Angel" Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Symphony no 3 in A minor Op. 56 "Scottish"
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Overview: Tim Albery's Olivier-nominated production for The Royal Opera delves deep into the psychology of Wagner's cursed wanderer and his beloved Senta, detailing the monomania and uncompromising idealism that finally drives them apart. Michael Levine's elemental single set is dominated by a rolling metal hull that represents the Dutchman's phantom ship, the poverty of Senta's home and the treacherous sea.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-02-24
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New Year’s Concert 2020
Overview: The 2020 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert took place on January 1, 2020, under the baton of Andris Nelsons in the Musikverein in Vienna. Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
Overview: Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly and Petr Popelka conduct the four movements of Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 9' in succession across Europe. An epic concert celebrating the bicentenary of the creation of Beethoven's masterpiece.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Sommernachtskonzert 2022
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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