On 7 and 8 October, Kent Nagano will return to Zurich to conduct Britten's War Reqiuem at the Tonhalle Zurich, which reopened in mid-September. 7, 8 October Zurich, Tonhalle Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich Britten: War Requiem op. 66 Georgia Jarman - soprano Ian Bostridge - tenor Russell Braun - baritone Zurich Sing-Akademie, Florian Helgath - rehearsal [...]
The new book by conductor Kent Nagano was published today, September 30, by Berlin Verlag. In “10 Lessons of my Life” Kent Nagano recalls ten very personal encounters of his life, from which he learned decisive lessons not only for his career. Among them are the Icelandic pop artist Björk, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre [...]
The Philharmonic State Orchestra and Kent Nagano will open the new concert season with the Rathausmarkt Open-Air on 14/15 August 2021. For the first time the concerts will be on to two days with two performances each: after the symphonic prelude on Saturday, a tribute to Jacques Offenbach will follow on Sunday with ensemble members [...]
Kent Nagano, as Honorary Conductor, conducts the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in its final Berlin concert of the 2020/2021 season on Friday, 25 June at 8 p.m. The Philharmonie will feature Paul Hindemith’s Chamber Music No. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Seong-Jin Cho, and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 3. At [...]
Kent Nagano, together with Mari Kodama and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin are guests at the Ravello Festival in Italy. The program of the concert on 1 July 2021 and 8:00 pm at Belvedere di Villa Rufolo will contain Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll”, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 3. The concert at [...]
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal have won the JUNO Award in the category CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR—LARGE ENSEMBLE for the recording GINASTERA—BERNSTEIN—MOUSSA. The recording was published in November 2020 on the Analekta label. Recorded live in concert at the Maison symphonique de Montréal in 2019 by the OSM under its now [...]
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In collaboration with Kent Nagano, Hamburg Ballet will premiere John Neumeier’s latest full-length creation, Beethoven Project II, beginning 29 May, with two additional performances the following two days (30, 31 May). The production was created in the fall of 2020 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Since the dress rehearsal on [...]
Podcast on research results of the “Wagner Readings” presented by the Friends of Concerto Köln and the Kunststiftung NRW. Episode 01: In the first episode of the podcast on the Wagner Readings, hosts Thilo Braun and Niklas Rudolph introduce the project: a historically-informed “Ring of the Nibelung”. Kent Nagano, Jochen Schäfsmeier, Kai Hinrich Müller and [...]
On 6 May, Kent Nagano will open this year’s Musikfest Hamburg 2021 together with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. The program includes Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and the world premiere of the Triple Concerto “Alisma”; a work for violin, violoncello, clarinet and orchestra by the Swiss composer William Blank. Soloists in this tribute to Beethoven include [...]