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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Pierre Bleuse

Since the 2023/24 season, French conductor Pierre Bleuse has been chief conductor of the Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. As the successor to musical greats such as Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, he now serves as a full-time »guardian of modernism«. Audiences in Hamburg already had the chance to experience the professional violinist during the 2025 »Elbphilharmonie Visions« festival. For »Compact Classics«, Bleuse brings along two landmark works of the 20th century, each conjuring up images, impressions and atmospheres in its own unique way.

What do you hear while sitting alone in New York’s Central Park at night? In Charles Ives’s 1906 tone poem »Central Park in the Dark«, different sound layers – performed by spatially separated groups of musicians – drift past each other: ragtime music from afar, the clatter of horse-drawn carriages, soft string textures weaving a nocturnal soundscape. Together, they form a multi-layered, immersive panorama of a nighttime park scene.

Claude Debussy conjures musical impressions of England, Spain and the awakening of spring in his »Images« for orchestra. Drawing on English gigues, Spanish folk music and French melodies, he paints fleeting sonic pictures. Like Ives, Debussy also offers a dreamlike nocturne in the second movement: »Les parfums de la nuit« (The Scents of the Night). But in the hands of the grand master of orchestral impressionism, all remains suggestion – enchanting, elusive and never fully graspable.

PERFORMERS

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester orchestra

Pierre Bleuse conductor

PROGRAM

Charles Ives
Central Park in the Dark

Claude Debussy
Images for Orchestra

Neue Philharmonie Hamburg / Hovhannes Baghdasaryan

The Neue Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 and is made up of freelance professional musicians from all over the world. Its artistic portfolio focuses on symphonic music from the Baroque to the Modern periods. In addition, the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg also regularly appears in smaller formations, such as chamber music ensembles.

PERFORMERS

Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg chamber orchestra

Hovhannes Baghdasaryan violin

PROGRAM

Antonio Vivaldi
Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op. 8

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and other works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vardapet Komitas and Johannes Brahms

Neugrabener Markt

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays there is always fresh produce from the region in the Marktpassage.

New Mobility Days 2026

Hamburg City becomes a mobility event area

The New Mobility Days in Hamburg are like a mini IAA Mobility, using Hamburg City as the event area from Saturday, May 23, to Saturday, May 30, 2026.

In the heart of Hamburg City, the six showrooms of electric car brands will feature micromobility, ranging from e-bikes to e-motorcycles, for one week.

The Camping Coffee Cafe is also participating as an additional partner.

Everyone can experience the spectrum of small and large e-mobility in Hamburg.

You can find all information and an overview map at:

www.new-mobility-days.de

Micromobility Move

As an oping for the New Mobility Days 2026, the Micromobility Move will take place again on the first day of the New Mobility Days.

Everyone is welcome to join with any vehicle smaller than a regular car, powered either electrically or by muscle power:

From bicycles, e-bikes, cargo bikes, and velomobiles, to e-scooters, speed pedelecs, e-mopeds, e-motor scooters, and e-motorcycles, all the way to electric microcars.

Special feature: Even otherwise in Germany not legally publicly useable small e-vehicles like monowheels, e-skateboards and onewheels are legally permitted to participate.

You can find all information and a map at:

www.micromobility-move.de

Nichts Neues - Besser Bauen mit Bestand

For the 11th Hamburg Architecture Summer 2026, we are bringing the exhibition “Nothing New – Better Building with Existing Structures” from the German Architecture Museum (DAM) to Hamburg together with Architects 4 Future and the network PIA – Women in Architecture eV.

We don't just show the exhibition – we take it further.

Because building within existing structures is not a niche topic for experts, but a central future issue for our city that affects everyone.

Instead of glossy models behind glass, we offer models that you can build yourself.

Instead of keeping your distance: Participate.

Instead of just looking: Try it out, rebuild it, rethink it.

Projects such as the Gängeviertel, PARKS (Alster-Bille-Elbe PARKS), the renovation of Kampnagel, and the Gröninger Hof showcase and discuss Hamburg's perspectives. The exhibition thus becomes a local inventory.

A diverse program of interactive workshops, tours, visits, and lectures will accompany the event. Topics such as circular construction, craftsmanship, social issues in the construction industry, and sustainable urban development will not be considered separately, but rather interconnected.

In this way, the exhibition becomes a space where generations, professions, and perspectives come together and ask the following questions:

How can we continue building when we already have everything?

The exhibition was curated by Katharina Böttger, Jonas Malzahn and Mathias Schnell (studio central) and extended for Urbaneo by Paulina Krebs, Maire Cordts, Ina Möller, Heidi Fletscher, Adrian Ebert, and Tanja Willhalm (Urbaneo, PIA - Women in Architecture eV and Architects 4 Future Hamburg).

An event as part of the Hamburg Architecture Summer 2026.

www.architektursommer.de

Night Flea Market at Rindermarkthalle St. Pauli

From April onwards, the forecourt of the Rindermarkthalle St. Pauli transforms into a flea market under the starry sky every Wednesday and Thursday evening!

Grab yourself a drink and browse through second-hand items, furniture, records, art, books, curiosities, and useful goods at up to 100 stalls. Plus, enjoy street food and good music.

Register for stall spaces at the flea market in front of the Rindermarkthalle via: www.nachtflohmarkt-rindermarkthalle.de

Event time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM