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A forward perspective combined with a look back – this guiding principle characterizes the 2023/24 concert season of the NDR Radio Philharmonic. “We are shaping the time until the chief conductor position is filled from the 2024/25 season with well-known guest conductors who are closely connected to the orchestra,” explains Achim Dobschall, head of the orchestra, choir and concerts department on NDR. “So you can look forward to many interesting encounters with familiar and valued conductors as well as with young, internationally aspiring podium stars.”
Jörg Widmann becomes Principal Guest Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic
Composer and conductor Jörg Widmann will take over the position of First Guest Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic for three years from the 2023/24 season. “For many years I have had the pleasure and honor of working with the wonderful musicians of the NDR Radio Philharmonic. When I conducted the orchestra in two concerts at the beginning of last year, something happened that went far beyond that: we simply fell in love into each other.” In the new season, Jörg Widmann will be present as conductor and composer at the symphony concerts A and C as well as in the Klassik Extra series. His programs are works of art in themselves: here he combines classics of orchestral literature with his own compositions, including the German premiere of his “danse macabre”, a work commissioned by the NDR Radio Philharmonic alongside other top international orchestras.
Eiji Oue, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Andrew Manze – former Principal Conductors in Series C
This season, the NDR Radio Philharmonic is asking its former chief conductors Eiji Oue, Eivind Gullberg Jensen and Andrew Manze to take the podium for the C symphony concerts – the series of the chief conductor. The orchestra is also celebrating the 200th birthday of the Austrian composer with the performance of Anton Bruckner’s Second and Seventh Symphonies. The final symphony concert C will be conducted by the new principal guest conductor Jörg Widmann.
Season opening with Mediterranean flair
At the opening of the season on September 28, the French conductor Fabien Gabel and the NDR Radio Philharmonic invite you to an imaginary journey through Spain in the 1st symphony concert A. The program in the cupola hall includes Ravel’s Boléro and Strauss’ “Don Juan” as well as de Falla’s “Nights in Spanish Gardens” with the Andalusian Javier Perianes as the soloist on the piano.
Igudesman & Joo: A “Hanover Proms” concert of a different kind
Almost two weeks earlier, on September 16, a “Hannover Proms” concert of a different kind will take place in the main broadcasting hall: The well-known comedy duo, the violinist and conductor Aleksey Igudesman and the pianist Hyung-ki Joo, will present together with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the title “The Happy Concert” a breathtaking fast-paced show. With a lot of wit and subtle humor, Mozart, Beethoven and Co. are skilfully parodied here and combined with other genres. “Hannover Proms” has become a beautiful and popular tradition in Hanover.
From Midori to Frank Peter Zimmermann: Geigenelite guests
One focus of the season is the performance of violin concertos from the classical to the present. And this is where the international violin elite step in: Midori plays Detlev Glanert’s 2017 violin concerto “To the Immortal Beloved”, Augustin Hadelich makes her debut with the NDR Radio Philharmonic with Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Isabelle Faust is closed with the Dvorák Violin Concerto hear. The illustrious circle also includes Frank Peter Zimmermann, Carolin Widmann and Valeriy Sokolov.
The baroque concerts are back in Herrenhausen
After two years in the large broadcasting hall of the NDR state radio station in Lower Saxony, the Baroque series is back in Herrenhausen. In the new season, music from the baroque to excursions into classical music will be offered in the gallery building, for example with Avi Avital on the mandolin. If you want, you can stroll in the baroque garden beforehand.
Freestyle with Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and Sing dela Sing
Hitchcock’s psychological thriller “Vertigo” became a classic not least because of Bernard Hermann’s music. This cinematic highlight is now coming in the Freistil series as a film concert “Live to Projection” in the large broadcasting hall of the NDR state broadcasting center in Lower Saxony. A completely different cult event is “Sing dela Sing”: Here the whole audience can sing along to “Skyfall”, “Dancing Queen” and other pop songs – accompanied by a large orchestra.
Chamber music in all its facets
For the chamber music matinees and the Blue Hour series in the Sprengel Museum, the musicians of the NDR Radio Philharmonic have put together varied concert programs from baroque to jazz. In a special chamber music concert, concertmaster Kathrin Rabus says goodbye to her Hanoverian audience after more than 30 years of service.
Discover Music!
Orchestra detectives with Malte Arkona, dwarf subscription and lots of offers for schools are also part of the “Discover Music!” education program in the 2023/24 season. The popular school tour for elementary schools this year leads through Schleswig-Holstein, with Jörg Schade’s new music theater piece “Rossini’s Music Kitchen”, which will also be performed as a family concert in the small broadcasting hall of the NDR state radio station in Hanover.
Strong presence in the NDR broadcasting area
With numerous guest concerts, the NDR Radio Philharmonic is also present in the entire NDR broadcasting area and at the major classical music festivals in the north: Wolfsburg, Göttingen, Wolfenbüttel, Lübeck, Wismar and others are on the list. World-class artists such as Alice Sara Ott and Mischa Maisky travel with the orchestra.
New: the trial subscription
A new offer to get to know each other from this season is the trial subscription, put together from the wide range of programs of the NDR Radiophilharmonie: four concerts from the areas of symphony, baroque, film music and classical music extra.
Tickets are available online from Friday, May 12 at 10 a.m www.ndrticketshop.deby telephone on 0511/277 898 99 and at all known advance booking offices.
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