Special concerts with Kent Nagano and Paul Lewis at the State Opera Hamburg (September 2020)
On 3 and 4 October 2020, Kent Nagano will conduct two special concert programs with works by Mozart, Schubert, Dvořák and others. The British pianist Paul Lewis, one of Britain’s most internationally renowned soloists, will make his debut with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. The matinee concerts will take place in the Great House of the Hamburg State Opera. Tickets are available by telephone at (040) 35 68 68 and from the State Opera’s ticket service.
Mozart’s A Major Concerto KV 414 is one of the most popular piano concertos of the Viennese classic and is also the unifying element of the two matinee concerts that Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra will present at the Hamburg State Opera on the first weekend of October. The British pianist Paul Lewis will be a guest of the orchestra. Lewis was a student of Alfred Brendel and has repeatedly worked with Kent Nagano. With the concerts, he will make his debut with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
The further program points are of a completely different character than Mozart’s piano concerto: Schubert’s string quartet “Der Tod und das Mädchen” will be heard on Sunday morning in the arrangement for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler, who first performed parts of the work in Hamburg in 1894. On Saturday morning, “Meeting with a friend” by the Latvian composer Georg Pelēcis and Antonín Dvořáks String Serenade op. 22 complete the program. The solo violin in “Meeting with a friend” will be played by Philharmonic concertmaster Konradin Seitzer.
Saturday, 3 October , 2020, 11.00 a.m., Hamburg State Opera, Großes Haus
Pelēcis: “Meeting with a friend” for violin and string orchestra
Mozart: Concerto in A major for piano and orchestra No. 12 KV 414
Dvořák: Serenade in E major for String Orchestra op. 22
Sunday, 4 October, 2020, 11.00 a.m., Hamburg State Opera, Großes Haus
Mozart: Concerto in A major for piano and orchestra No. 12 KV 414
Schubert: String quartet ” Der Tod und das Mädchen” (String orchestra arrangement by Gustav Mahler)