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Große Konzerte of the Gewandhaus Orchestra

Leipzig, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig — Grosser Saal

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About the Event

In this highly‐anticipated concert, hear the mellifluous sounds of classical music performed by the Gewandhausorchester at Leipzig's treasured and world‐renowned Gewandhaus zu Leipzig.

The symphonic concerts with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the Gewandhaus are called “Große Concerte” (Grand Concerts). The name pays homage to the founding fathers of the orchestra, whose first formation was engaged by the music association “Das Große Concert,” founded in 1743. Members of this music association were nobles and citizens of the city.

Program

  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco – Overture for Julius Caesar, op. 78
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Konzert für Violine und Orchester D‐Dur op. 35
  • Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung – Tondichtung für großes Orchester op. 24
  • Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28
Program is subject to change

Artists

Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester is a German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus.

The orchestra has a good claim to being the oldest continuing musical performing organization in Europe. In the early 19th century, Felix Mendelssohn was the kapellmeister.

Later principal conductors included Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Vaclav Neumann, and from 1970 to 1996 Kurt Masur. In 1998, Herbert Blomstedt took over the post until 2005 and will be succeeded by Riccardo Chailly.

As home to the Gewandhausorchester, the city of Leipzig possesses an orchestra of the highest world renown — one with an extraordinarily illustrious heritage spanning 275 years. In March 1743, sixteen Leipzig merchants founded a concert society, which was to shape musical history. Today, the Gewandhausorchester thrills and inspires music lovers the world over with both its passion for music and its unique, unmistakable sound.
Alongside its 70 symphonic Große Concerte per season, the Gewandhausorchester performs as the orchestra both of the Leipzig Opera — a role it has fulfilled for over 200 years — and of St. Thomas‘s Church, performing the music of JS Bach each week with the celebrated Thomanerchor. In addition, the Orchestra gives approximately 35 concerts per season all around the globe, and is documented on countless recordings. The unique diversity of the Gewandhausorchester‘s activities is a fundamental factor of Leipzig‘s international renown as ‚City of Music‘.

Conductor, Staging: Andrés Orozco‐Estrada

Andrés Orozco‐Estrada was born in 1977 in Medellin (Columbia). At the age of five he started to play the violin, at the age of 15 he conducted the orchestra of his Music High school. In 1992 he started to study conducting. From 1997 to 2003 he persued his conducting studies in the master class of Uros Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy.

From 2001 to 2004 Andrés Orozco‐Estrada was elected Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna's Technical University. During these years he conducted a wide range of symphonic and opera programmes, including concert and staged performances of Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute and Don Carlo.

Violin: María Dueñas

Address

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Augustusplatz 8, Leipzig, Germany — Google Maps

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