NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / James Gaffigan

• Classical Music

In his mid-forties, James Gaffigan is already music director of two major opera houses: the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. For his debut with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the American conductor has chosen dramatic incidental music for the programme. Gaffigan opens the concert with the beginning of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera »Khovanshchina«. It is a gloomy portrait of the mores of Tsarist Russia, but the composer gave the introduction the idyllic title »Dawn on the Moskva«: soaring string sounds merge into gentle flute tones, which are gradually joined by other wind instruments.

PERFORMERS

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester orchestra

Vadim Gluzman violin

James Gaffigan conductor

PROGRAM

Modest Mussorgsky
Introduction to »Khovanshchina«

Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 129

Joseph Haydn
Symphony in F minor, Hob. I:49 »La passione«

Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture from »Egmont«, Op. 84