General Music Director of Hamburg State Opera, Kent Nagano will conduct all performances of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, a production staged by Claus Guth, from 30 October.
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On Sunday, 21 October, Kent Nagano will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonie. Since 2006 Kent Nagano is Honorary Conductor of the orchestra.
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The concert will be live broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur at 20.03 (CET). Find here further information on this live broadcast.
On 12 and 14 October, Kent Nagano and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin will perform concerts with the OSM. On the program will be Chopin’s piano concertos No. 1 and 2 as well as the Serenade in e flat major by Richard Strauss.
The concert on Sunday, 14 October will be streamed as Facebook live on the Facebook page of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, streamed and presented by Medici.tv. Find here a link with further information. The stream will start at 20.30 CET (19.30 GMT)
Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg release their first CD together: the live recording of the oratorio ARCHE by composer Jörg Widmann, whose world premiere was presented on the occasion of the opening festivities of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in January 2017 – commissioned by the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, supported by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.
The CD will be released on 5 October 2018 by the label ECM Records.
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From 9 – 19 September Kent Nagano and musicians of the OSM will go on tour to the very north of Quebec and will trace a path from the arctic down through Quebec’s interior toward the Côte-Nord. The chamber opera Chaakapesh of the young Canadian composer Matthew Ricketts was commissioned especially for this upcoming tour. 10 years after their first visit, Kent Nagano and the OSM will visit Inuit, Cree and Innu villages and will perform Chaakapesh, composed for five languages (Cree, Inuktitut, Innu, French and English). Cree playwright Tomson Highway provided the idea and wrote the libretto. It is based on a Cree legend, similar to the biblical Noah story. Find here an interview with the composer Matthew Ricketts about the OSM commission.
Find here the performances dates and venues of the tour:
10 September
Kuujjuaq
12 September
Salluit
14 September
Kuujjuarapik
17 September
Oujé-Bougoumou
18 September
Mashteuiatsh
19 September
Uashat mak Mani-Utenam
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano present this year’s Virée Classique in Montréal from 29 August until 2 September.
The festival will offer concerts with soloists like violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaïa or pianists Paul Lewis and Alexei Volodi.
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The OSM has created a trailer announcing the festival. You can click on it here.
On 25 August 2018 – Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday – BBC Radio 3 will broadcast at 13.00 British time an interview with Kent Nagano in a special edition of “Inside Music”. Principal subject of the interview is Leonard Bernstein, but Kent Nagano also talks about other works, such as J.S. Bachs Goldberg Variations or Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen.
Overview:
25 August 2018, 13.00 BST
BBC Radio 3, “Inside Music”
Link to the show
On 16 August 2018 the new production of “The Bassarids” staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski will celebrate its premiere. Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Vienna Philharmonics in the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg.
Further performances will take place on 19, 23 and 26 August.
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The film “La mission de Kent Nagano” by Inge Kloepfer and Nadja Frenz (NDR/ARTE 2017) is available on YouTube. The documentary is in German, French and English language.
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Find here information about the tv documentary by production company Vincent.TV.