Kent Nagano – Interview on BBC Radio 3’s “Inside Music” on the occasion of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday (August 2018)

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

Kent Nagano conducts premiere of “The Bassarids” (August 2018)

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.

Find here further information about this production.

Film “La mission de Kent Nagano” is online (August 2018)

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.

Clicke here, to watch the film.

Find here information about the tv documentary by production company Vincent.TV.

Kent Nagano conducts opening ceremony of Salzburg Festival 2018 (July 2018)

On Friday, 27 July at 11.00 a.m. (CET) the official opening ceremony of this year’s Salzburg Festival will take place in the Felsenreitschule. On this occasion, Kent Nagano will conduct the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg with works by Richard Strauss, Gottfried von Einem and Leonard Bernstein.

The ceremony will be broadcast live on TV (ORF 2). Find more information on this here.

Kent Nagano with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich (July 2018)

On 5 and 6 July Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of Munich Herkulessaal to conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. On the program will be Messiaen’s “Chronochromie”  and Bruckner’s Mess No. 2 in e minor.

The concert on 6 July will be broadcast live on BR Klassik. Find here further information about this.

Kent Nagano conducts Academy concerts in Hamburg in August (June 2018)

General Music Director of Hamburg Kent Nagano will conduct his first open air concert on the Town Hall square in Hamburg on 25 August. “This concert shall be a musical gift to the citizens of our city”, says Kent Nagano.

On the program will be works by Brahms, Bernstein and Rachmaninow. The entry is free.

On 26 and 27 August four Academy concerts will take place in the Town Hall of Hamburg, also under the baton of Kent Nagano .

Find here further information about those concerts.

Kent Nagano conducts Deutsches Symphonie Orchestra Berlin in Berlin & Munich (June 2018)

On 22, 23 and 24 June Kent Nagano will conduct the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, whose Honorary Conductor he has been since 2006. On the program will be Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.

The concerts on 22 and 23 June will take place in the Philharmonie Berlin. On 24 June they will be guest in Philharmonie in Munich.

Find here more information about the concerts in Berlin and here about the concert in Munich.