NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Steven Isserlis / Elim Chan

• Classical Music

»I want interaction. I want people to feel something. I want them to ask questions,« explained Elim Chan in an interview. The Hong Kong-born conductor is currently one of the most sought-after musicians of her generation. The Vienna Musikverein dedicated a three-part portrait series to her in the 2022/23 season. And after Elim Chan’s debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2022, the press wrote euphorically of a »miracle of control and understanding«.
In this concert, Elim Chan has a musician at her side who is one of only two living cellists to have been inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame and who continues to captivate audiences with his unique musicianship: Steven Isserlis. He plays Joseph Haydn’s long-lost Cello Concerto in C major, in which late Baroque solemnity is combined with the virtuosity of Viennese Classicism. The elegant lightness of the concerto conceals highly demanding passages that require a great deal of dexterity from the soloist.

PERFORMERS

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester orchestra

Steven Isserlis violoncello

Elim Chan conductor

PROGRAM

Joseph Haydn
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in C major, Hob. VIIb:1

Witold Lutosawski
Concerto for Orchestra