Where: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Hamburg
20457
Germany
Hamburg
What: Anna Clyne @ Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
When:
Programme Anna Clyne - Restless Oceans Anders Hillborg - Peacock Tales / Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Performers: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Martin Frost - clarinet Alan Gilbert - conductor
When Martin Fröst is invited as Artist in Residence with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in the 2025/2026 season, a signature piece by this extravagant clarinetist is a must: In 1998, the Swede Anders Hillborg wrote his “Peacock Tales” literally for his fellow countryman. In this simultaneously humorous and highly virtuosic clarinet concerto, Fröst’s exceptional talent is called upon in several ways. The soloist must not only demonstrate adeptness in all sorts of musical styles from past to present, but also act as a dancer and mime with a mask.
Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert opens the concert with a three-minute, yet incredibly intense and similarly theatrical work by Hillborg’s British colleague Anna Clyne. “Restless Oceans” was written in 2018 for an all-female orchestra and, according to the composer, aims to emphasize “the power of women”—not only with the musicians’ instruments, but also with their voices and feet…
Antonín Dvořák’s stormy Seventh Symphony also presents itself as self-confident and combative: For many contemporary interpreters, the Symphony in D minor, completed in March 1885, was a musical symbol of the Czech struggle for national freedom and self-determination. For Dvořák personally, however, the work also had to satisfy a completely different demand: He absolutely wanted to live up to the praise that his revered colleague Brahms had paid to his earlier symphonies. “I am now occupied with the new symphony,” Dvořák wrote of his Seventh. “And wherever I go, I have no thought for anything other than my work, which must move the world.” And he succeeded!
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20457
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Who: Anna Clyne
Described as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” in the New York Times and as “fearless” by NPR, GRAMMY-nominated Anna Clyne is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists around the world.