Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Alexander Gadjiev / Gergely Madaras

PERFORMERS

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester orchestra

Alexander Gadjiev piano

Gergely Madaras conductor

PROGRAM

Sergej Prokofjew
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

- Interval -

Ernst von Dohnányi
Sinfonie Nr. 1 d-Moll op. 9

NDR Family Concert

What do snow and ice sound like? What does an icy north wind whistling around corners sound like? After such a wintry start to the concert, the crazy and exuberant dance »La follia« will warm you up and won’t want to stop. Finally, the audience is introduced to Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, which was traditionally performed at the festive banquet in the Vatican Palace. The finale is particularly Christmassy with the world-famous »Pastorale«. The NDR welcomes the Schirokko Ensemble, a string orchestra that plays on historical instruments.

PERFORMERS

Ensemble Schirokko Hamburg ensemble

Rachel Harris director

Christina Dean moderation

PROGRAM

Giovanni Antonio Guido
L’Hyver

Francesco Geminiani
Concerto grosso Nr. 12 d-Moll »La follia«

Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6/8 »Fatto per la Notte di Natale«

NDR Kammerkonzert

The Mount Everest of piano trios, at least as far as the Romantic and Impressionist eras are concerned: this is how you could describe the program, which is composed of two works by Tchaikovsky and Ravel. Tchaikovsky’s most famous piece of chamber music, which bears the subtitle »À la mémoire d’un grande artiste« (»In memory of a great artist«), is dedicated to the memory of the piano virtuoso and teacher Nikolai Rubinstein, who died in Paris in March 1881. Tchaikovsky was so shocked that the decision to write a musical epitaph was quickly made. According to an old tradition, Tchaikovsky even depicted twelve episodes from the life of his deceased friend in the final set of variations: However, it is still not known exactly which ones.

Shadows undoubtedly also lie over Ravel’s piano trio. It was composed during the outbreak of war in August 1914 and premiered in Paris the following year, 1915. Beneath the mask of sometimes dazzling virtuosity, elegiac, even painful undertones can be felt in many passages, lending the musical expression a peculiar depth. On this evening, the audience has the opportunity to experience the first chamber music performance by the new concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra: David Radzinsky takes on the virtuoso violin part in the two piano trios.

PERFORMERS

David Radzynski violin

Christopher Franzius violoncello

Paul Rivinius piano

PROGRAM

Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor

Piotr I. Tschaikowsky
Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 »À la mémoire d’un grand artiste«

Neugrabener Markt

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

Nils Landgren

For many years, the trombonist, singer and producer Nils Landgren – now well-established as one of Europe’s most versatile, creative and successful jazz musicians – dreamed of putting on a musical Christmas celebration in the company of good friends and with a selection of the many, very diverse Christmas songs he had come across over the course of his career. That dream became reality in 2006. And because »Christmas With My Friends« soon became known among fans and critics alike as one of the best Christmas records ever made, Landgren is taking the programme on tour again in 2025.

PERFORMERS

Nils Landgren trombone and director

& friends

PROGRAM

»Christmas with my friends«

On the Origins of the 21st Century or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Through five curated sections, this cluster of exhibitions examines the role of intimacy, gender, and sexuality through visual cultures in the context of political regime changes in Europe from the 1980s until today. Artworks that engage with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and its consequences shed light on the emergence of a power vacuum, in a moment often referred to as the end of history, and the struggles emerging within new hegemonies informed by gender and sexuality. The title references Jean-Luc Godard’s f ilm Origins of the 21st Century, which anticipates developments in visual culture that synthesise violence and the erotic into an era of the “hardcore” at the turn of the millennium – a time when uncensored images increasingly begin to enable and establish new political spaces. The exhibition seeks the origins of this hardcore visual culture not in cinema, but in video and television media, locating them as the dominant tools of discourse and power in a then- accelerating postmodernity.

Curated by Angela Harutyunyan, Charles Teyssou und Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Dina Akhmadeeva, Elisa R. Linn, Erika Balsom.

With works by:

Sona Abgaryan, Jürgen Baldiga, Annemirl Bauer, Maria Grazia Belmonti, Anna Mária

Beová, Bärbel Bohley, Günter Brus, Anna Carini, Michel Carrouges, Shu Lea

Cheang, Mahmoud Dabdoub, Lutz Dammbeck, Rony Daopoulo, Anna Dauíková, Paola De

Martiis, De-Zentralbild, Mark Dion, Peter Friedl, Nikolay Georgiev, Wiktor Grodecki, Diana

Hakobyan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jayne-Ann Igel, Libue Jarcovjáková, William E. Jones, David

Kareyan, Tigran Khachatryan, Pierre Klossowski, Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, Raja Lubinetzki,

Materialien aus dem Archiv GrauZone, Paul McCarthy, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Bjarne

Melgaard, Annabella Miscuglio, Clara Mosch, Namenlos, Ladies Neid, Shz Numa, César

Olhagaray, Geraldo Paunde, Ulrich Polster, Núria Quevedo, Loredana Rotondo, Ronald M.

Schernikau, Sarah Schulman, Harout Simonian, Gabriele Stötzer, Sandra Teitge, Tsomak, Ralf-

Rainer Wasse, Jürgen Wittdorf, frau anders, Rosa von Praunheim

Organised by Milan Ther, with Christian Bätjer, Dr Martin Karcher, and Sarah Messerschmidt