Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Under the direction of Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig goes on a European festival tour.
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Andris Nelsons |
Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. These two positions, in addition to his leadership of a pioneering alliance between both institutions, have firmly established Grammy Award-winning Nelsons as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.
Nelsons’ positions in Boston and Leipzig commenced in the 2014/15 season and in February 2018, respectively. In October 2020, Nelsons extended his contracts with both orchestras. Autumn 2019 marked a ground-breaking highlight for Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: three performances featuring musicians from both institutions within one joint orchestra were given at Boston’s Symphony Hall as part of the alliance between the two orchestras. This season, this alliance will centre around symphonic works by Richard Strauss, including performances in conjunction with a joint recording release.
Following his return to orchestras including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks last season, Nelsons looks forward to performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker in December 2021 and at the upcoming Salzburg Festival with the Wiener Philharmoniker, with whom he conducted the prestigious New Year’s Day concert in 2020, broadcast to millions across the world. This summer, Nelsons will also be returning to conduct the Festspielorchester in Bayreuth.
Andris Nelsons has an exclusive recording relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, which has paved the way for three landmark projects with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Wiener Philharmoniker. Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra partner on recordings of the complete Shostakovich symphonies and the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District - this cycle is already the recipient of four Grammy awards in the categories Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album. Furthermore, Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig continue their critically acclaimed Bruckner symphonic cycle under the Yellow Label. Both cycles released their fifth instalments in 2021. Nelsons’ recordings of Beethoven’s complete symphonies with the Wiener Philharmoniker, in celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday, were released by Deutsche Grammophon in October 2019.
Born in Riga in 1978 into a family of musicians, Andris Nelsons began his career as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra whilst studying conducting. He was Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2008-2015, Principal Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany 2006-2009 and Music Director of the Latvian National Opera 2003-2007.
SEASON 2021/2022
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Under the direction of Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig goes on a European festival tour.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will focus intensively on the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on this tour.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, under the direction of Andris Nelsons, will focus intensively on the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on this tour.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Andris Nelsons on a summer tour.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Andris Nelsons on a summer tour.
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Andris Nelsons and star pianist Lang Lang take Beethoven on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
The oldest bourgeois concert orchestra in the German-speaking world embarks on a festival tour. It is conducted by Gewandhauskappellmeister Andris Nelsons, who has held this post since February 2018 and star pianist Yuja...
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Read more„Nelsons celebrates the sheer delight in the grand symphony away from all self-reflective moments and interpretations.“
„The Philharmonic Orchestra and Andris Nelsons let the death march of Gustav Mahler's Sixth unroll magnificently on a relentless ground beat. In Salzburg's Großes Festspielhaus, the ensemble indulged in intoxication of sound and a longing for death, without using the associated clichés.“
„„[Nelsons] is evidently, sometimes even visibly, a high-precision operator, while a certain earthiness of manner was all to the good in managing the cosmic immensities of the Mahler““
„Nelsons revealed himself as a sensitive Mahler interpreter, nevertheless one with a very firm grip. His focus was on the concentrates on sculpture of the details, without losing sight of the great sound.““
„Andris Nelsons performed a miracle of amalgamation of precision and exuberance, plainness and proliferation of sound, constrained rigour and freely floating dynamics.“
„Nelsons […] again and again retrieves new glories from all corners of this really superb orchestra.“