...“Wagner’s music, like Bruckner’s goes way beyond the intellectual,”
observes Nelsons. “Both composers use their work to address existential
questions and open up new spiritual dimensions.” This is music of
concentrated, raw emotion, music that goes straight to the heart, and it
is hard to think of any orchestra capable of interpreting it with
greater intensity than the Gewandhausorchester. As Nelsons adds, “The
orchestra’s incredible variety of sounds is particularly vividly
displayed in Bruckner’s compositions. I hope through our recordings to
further cultivate and disseminate this immense spectrum of colours and
the orchestra’s special authority in the Romantic repertoire.”
Andris Nelsons himself is one of the most dynamic and innovative
conductors of our time. As Music Director of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra he has already broken new musical ground, and his inauguration
as Gewandhauskapellmeister represents another major milestone in his
career. “It is an extraordinary honour to be part of this tradition,” he
says, adding that the orchestra should aim to keep evolving. Their
mission together, as he sees it, is to look to the future by
commissioning new works as well as respecting the past and keeping the
music of the great masters alive.
That aim is reflected in Leipzig’s upcoming four-week festival, whose
programmes embrace past and present, with music by composers ranging
from Bach to Tchaikovsky, to Jörg Widmann. Shortly after these
celebrations, Nelsons will embark on his first European tour with the
Gewandhausorchester, performing at such prestigious venues as Hamburg’s
Elbphilharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Vienna Musikverein.
All in all, it promises to be a rousing start to a new era in Leipzig’s musical history. (Deutsche Grammophon)
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